Forgive me as I'm about to go on a bit of a rant here, but there is just something I need to get off my chest.
I can't seem to read an article about a trans woman in the media without someone making a rude remark in the comment section saying, "Oh, she's still a man," or "that's not really a woman," and using male pronouns, blazay-blazay... It really makes me angry that people feel the need to do that, really, and I would love it if the ignorance would stop.
It really upsets me to see trans women being called men so just imagine how much it'll offend me if I get called a man. This, right here, is precisely why when my M2F transition is complete, I'm going to go stealth (for as long as I can) because I don't think I can take the anger of being called a "man" especially when I hate being a man.
So the whole misgendering trans people thing, saying transwomen are still men and transmen are still women, needs to stop, like, a decade ago, much more right now. Such articles are here:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/21/4131174/fallon-fox-mma-science-transgender-fighting-athleteshttp://necolebitchie.com/2014/02/07/transgender-author-janet-mock-explains-to-piers-morgan-why-referring-to-her-as-formerly-a-man-is-offensive/Think about it this way:
By law, trans women are considered women, not men (except that stops when they have a run in with the law and then get put into men's jails, which too, needs to stop by the way).
In the case of female hormones on MtF people, hormones causes the male body to stop functioning as a male (i.e. loss of the ability to produce sperm, testis reduction, breast development, lactation ability, etc) and make the body more prone to functioning as female. In much the same way a FtM man taking male hormones make the female body more prone to functioning as a man's body than a woman's. Granted, male hormones cannot produce a penis on a woman but that brings me to my next point.
True, trans women (AS OF RIGHT NOW) cannot menstruate and conceive a child because the technology that could make that possible doesn't yet exist, just like trans men (AS OF RIGHT NOW) do not have functioning penises and testis that produce sperm because the technology that could make that possible doesn't yet exist. But as I said previously, despite that, trans women's bodies still function as women to some degree thanks to hormonal dosages in much the same way trans men's bodies still function as men to some degree thanks to hormonal dosages.
So if all the ignorant cis people really take the time they take addressing us by our formal gender to think about this a moment, they'll come to understand that trans women are no more men than they are elephants just like trans men are no more women than they are zebras (though it's kind of hard for me to be a lawyer to Thomas Beattie being that he's conceived a few of his own children to term).
Really, though, I'd rather be called "it" and trans phobic slurs than to be called a man and male pronouns.
If you guys have any more ways of supporting that trans women/men are still women/men, please do post them below.
If this post has offended anyone for any reason, I deeply and completely apologize, but I felt this topic needed to be addressed.
