Blake Lively repeatedly refers to transgender people as traxxies in resurfaced interviews

[jemgirl90]

Fury as Blake Lively repeatedly refers to transgender people as trannies in resurfaced interviews https://t.co/LCUykYaPgW pic.twitter.com/Z64aILEELW
- Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) August 18, 2024
Source:https://twitter.com/DailyMail/status/1825279598696796503Read more... )

Comments

[skankyoulater]

I'm curious when this became a slur? Isn't it just a shortened / affectionate way to say transgender?

[genbu_no_miko24]

Sometime before the 2010s and up people in the community started saying it was a slur. Cause I remember that and "fierce" were Christian Siriano's famous catchphrases when he was on Project Runway. But he got into a bit of trouble from the trans community for using it so much :"If you think of heterosexuals, they have white-trash women and trailer parks, and we have drag queens and tr****s. I don't know if I'm the one who can explain it. It's, like, drag queens are just there." But that didn't go over well with the community and so he later apologized and said he'd remove it from his vocabulary.

I remember that being one of the first times seeing pushback against it cause it wasn't there much in the past iirc.

[ty]

Roz Kaveney wrote in The Guardian in 2010 that tranny had recently appeared to be undergoing reappropriation to be used with pride by trans activists, but "it didn't take", due in part to the word's continued use as a term of abuse.[5] After using the slur in 2011, Lance Bass said he had thought the term was not a slur after having heard it used on RuPaul's Drag Race or Project Runway, but he apologized for using the slur after learning that it was not acceptable.[6] GLAAD's 2011 Transgender Resource Page said the term is "usually considered offensive and/or defamatory to transgender people".[7]

[slinkydinks]

It also used to be used to describe "transvestites," but I think the proximity to trans people in the drag world didn't really allow for there to be distinction between the two communities, despite RuPaul's (and other queens') insistence on continuing to use it.

[recognitions]

No

[pantless_deacon]

From the first moment it was uttered by somebody outside of the trans community.