Transgender vs. Transgendered
Discuss, please.
I use transgendered. Adjective. I am transgendered. I am a transgendered person.
I really don't like "he is a transgender" and I don't think most of us trans* people use it.
But what about transgender. Adjective. I am transgender. I am a transgender person.
Actually, really, I tend to use transmasuline more than transgender(ed).
Is my resistance to transgender just because I transitioned so long ago?
I have been describing myself as transgendered since December of 1998. I changed my name in June 1999, and started hormones in October 1999, I had chest surgery in summer 2001. I went off testosterone in the summer of 2004. Though I was stealth at work and outside of my immediate circle from 2000 through 2005, though I started disclosing and taking on trans activisty stuff in university around 2001/2002 when I started at Guelph. Since 2005, I would say that I have been out in almost all aspects of my life, though there are people who don't know, either because they just don't, or because I've kept it from them.
Is this a case of me being a curmudgeon? And would somebody please get those kids off my lawn? ::grin::
Or should I be making the switch to transgender people instead of transgendered people? What do you say, personally, and why?
(Do us a favour and make sure to position yourself as a trans person/soffa/ally/etc. as these apply.)
I use transgendered. Adjective. I am transgendered. I am a transgendered person.
I really don't like "he is a transgender" and I don't think most of us trans* people use it.
But what about transgender. Adjective. I am transgender. I am a transgender person.
Actually, really, I tend to use transmasuline more than transgender(ed).
Is my resistance to transgender just because I transitioned so long ago?
I have been describing myself as transgendered since December of 1998. I changed my name in June 1999, and started hormones in October 1999, I had chest surgery in summer 2001. I went off testosterone in the summer of 2004. Though I was stealth at work and outside of my immediate circle from 2000 through 2005, though I started disclosing and taking on trans activisty stuff in university around 2001/2002 when I started at Guelph. Since 2005, I would say that I have been out in almost all aspects of my life, though there are people who don't know, either because they just don't, or because I've kept it from them.
Is this a case of me being a curmudgeon? And would somebody please get those kids off my lawn? ::grin::
Or should I be making the switch to transgender people instead of transgendered people? What do you say, personally, and why?
(Do us a favour and make sure to position yourself as a trans person/soffa/ally/etc. as these apply.)