I only use transsexual as an indicator of the medical condition I have. Hoping not to be too redundant here, but to be more specific, I view this simply as a curable birth defect; or what I call a transsexual medical condition. In other words, I am a young woman with a transsexual birth defect. With SRS, that itself is the cure to this particular problem in my life, and like Anja says, my past will be my past, in this particular case, I do not want it to, nor should it, impact my present or my future. I only would want woman, young woman (given my age), or female applied to me at that time. I wish merely to blend in as simply another woman in society, with the number of people knowing my medical history at that point less than the number of fingers on my hands I use to type this message; likely my future husband, and, certainly assuredly, any family that knew me prior to transition. Those are the only ones. I wish not to stick out, I merely wish to go on with life, as a normal woman, as I have been doing, and moreso, given SRS, in hopefully my very near future.
I do not use terms like "transwoman", or "transgender", or the like (cannot think of others offhand), to describe myself. By the site TOS, I cannot mind if others to do so to me. So be it, that is certainly within the jurisdiction of the forum, and, namely, and in particular, its administrators; I respect their decision to have such policy, policies in place, regarding this matter, for whatever reason. But I still have that individual freedom to disavow myself of such terms, on a personal level. That cannot be taken away from me. In the majority of cases, though not all, I do not mind what you call yourself. Typically, as long as it remains within the norms of humanity, it will likely be okay by me. Last I checked, nobody in here is psychofrogily inverted.
I do not accept these terms, because: transwoman, to me, means transgender woman. I take issue with the term transgender for similar reasons: my gender has always been female, that is not what I am fixing. Rather, it is my sex, which I my own purposes only, as what is between my legs. Disagree? Well, that's fine, as long as we can respect each other's differences as to each our own opinion, belief, or so on. Just how I judge the determinant of my body's sex. Thus, I see my personal problem as sex identity based, not gender identity based. Alas, it should be female, with a uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, etc. but it pains me so heavily to say it lacks these. SRS is not perfect, in that respect, but it is good enough, and will have to do.
