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Title: Will 'Transgender' Survive?
Post by: Shana A on August 04, 2010, 09:23:15 AM

Will 'Transgender' Survive?

By JillPage Tue, Aug 3 2010
Patent Pending

http://communities.canada.com/montrealgazette/blogs/patentpending/archive/2010/08/03/will-transgender-survive.aspx (http://communities.canada.com/montrealgazette/blogs/patentpending/archive/2010/08/03/will-transgender-survive.aspx)

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I sometimes wonder about the future of the adjective "transgender." Will it be one of those words that becomes redundant?

What am I talking about? Well, it seems the word "transgender" is mainly used to describe genetic males who are blurring gender lines. True, some women consider themselves to be "transgender" individuals, but most women who blur gender lines in their personal presentations consider themselves to be "women," not "transgender" people.
Title: Re: Will 'Transgender' Survive?
Post by: Bam on August 04, 2010, 10:47:43 AM
I am Post-Op and only refer to myself as a Woman or a Lady,nothing else.
Title: Re: Will 'Transgender' Survive?
Post by: Steph on August 04, 2010, 03:03:59 PM
Got to agree...

The term is no longer useful.  Everyone who now doesn't fit into the norm when it comes to gender identity is included under what is now an umbrella term, and as such it has lost it's meaning. :(  Personally I hope it doesn't survive.

-={LR}=-
Title: Re: Will 'Transgender' Survive?
Post by: pretty pauline on August 05, 2010, 09:47:15 AM
Quote from: Bam on August 04, 2010, 10:47:43 AM
I am Post-Op and only refer to myself as a Woman or a Lady,nothing else.
Im the same, 25years post-op this year, doesn't matter to me if ''Transgender'' doesn't survive, anyway I hate being reminded Im not a genetic female, Im a Woman, I like being refer to as a Lady, most guys and gents and people in general see me as a Lady.
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