Don't call me transgender
http://www.thescavenger.net/glbsgdq/dont-call-me-transgender.html (http://www.thescavenger.net/glbsgdq/dont-call-me-transgender.html)
1/29/11
by Dr Tracie O'Keefe DCH
Many of us are not transgendered
From now on I shall use the phrase transexed instead of transsexual because many people assumed that being transsexual was about sexuality but for many it was about being a form of intersex, namely transexed.
I never changed my gender identity it was always female. I had my body altered at 15 to reflect my correct sex characteristics and my gender has never been 'transed'. If you look at picture of me at 12, I'm practically wearing the same thing then that I am now. I don't do fashion – I'm too busy.
I don't wish to be described as transgendered because I am not. To try and describe me as transgendered is inaccurate, uneducated and steals my identity. I have no objection to people describing themselves as transgendered if that reflects their experience but mine is not the same.