I'm a little hypocritical about the word ->-bleeped-<-. I don't think it's offensive if I say it about myself, or if another transgendered person says it. I'm borderline on friends using it (they don't mean it as an insult, but it can sometimes come across as ignorant), but when people I don't know/don't know well say it, I feel offended, because in most cases it's used as an insult (if the person doesn't mean to be insulting, they'd probably be using another word).