Should some tran terms or be changed or am I just being pernickety?

[Ms Grace]

Language can be bend and twisted in a hundred or more different ways to mean one thing to one person or exactly the opposite to another. Whatever suits you suits you.

[Elis]

Thanks for all the replies. I've never heard it called genital reconstruction surgery before but that makes a lot more sense. I guess I just want to get away from the notion spun by the media that we were one gender and then chose to be another. Maybe when I'm further on in my transition it'll bother me less. Use whatever terminology suits you though

[Fids]

Terminology is changing a lot in the younger generation of trans people - in my sphere, GRS does in fact mean genital reconstruction surgery.

From my understanding we're actually trying to get away from sex-based terminology as well, and encouraging that the physical characteristics of what most people know as "sex" also be seen as a social construct.

So basically, a trans women still has a female body, because it is her body and she is female. Her actual anatomy wouldn't have a bearing on whether she's female "bodied," only her gender. Especially because many people exist who can't fall into the binary spectrum of "male versus female bodied"

These people aren't sexless or genderless or anything else, their body is whatever their gender is. I hope that makes sense.

I don't even like to use the terms "MTF" or "FTM" anymore, since they insinuate that the person used to be a different gender and is now "becoming" something else. Just my perspective.

[Ashey]

Hmm, well to me marriage is marriage. Mtf or ftm are convenient acronyms in certain cases, and I don't see a problem with it. My gender marker is 'F' so umm, it's not as if 'MtF' is going to be my label or define me, it's just a descriptive term. And for GRS or SRS or whatever, I prefer 'remodeling the downstairs'. Or whatever other euphemisms I come up with. Might as well have fun with it!