Trans 101: Extra Credit

[calculus_of_destructions]

As a slight note from my last post, given the interpretation of "trans" and "cis" as adjectives I hope it should be clear what is wrong with "transwoman" or "transman". It creates a new word, rather than simply modifying the existing one.

Now, you might say this seems like a minor, pedantic, point. I argue that it's an important exercise in internalizing the fact that when one says "man" or "woman" that cis and trans act to denote proper subsets, with equal standing if not equal size, of the set of all men or the set of all women.

Comments

[flippac]

I wouldn't be surprised if some trans people prefer those terms for approximately the same reasons that aspies often prefer aspie to person with asperger's - that there're aspects that aren't entirely separable or that they don't wish to separate. But yeah, definitely not something to apply non-consensually.