#nadie

so, in the 2010s "trans woman" and "trans man" were new terms, new enough that they often went without a space between the two words or were sometimes written "trans* woman" snd "trans* man" because the word "trans" was usually followed by an asterisk for nonbinary people.

prior to the 2010s we mostly used "mtf"/"ftm" or "transsexual woman"/"transsexual man" (it was even a point of discourse whether "transexual" had two s's or one). "transgender" wasn't yet an umbrella term and referred to another kind of identity entirely.

so, around 2010 unobject, a trans latina and a mutual of ours, was looking at the oxford english dictionary and found the word "baeddel", the root etymology for the word "bad" and a word which meant "feminine man" in such a way it described trans women. and because there weren't many words for what we were, especially any words that felt like they fit for nonbinary tma people (most of the baeddels were nonbinary, our host at the time was), lots of people adopted "baeddel" as an identifier.

in the years since we've been labelled all kinds of things, especially by people who weren't around at the time, but as transfeminists now are unfortunately finding out, tme people will use ant excuse to label you with the worst accusations they can possibly think of for being a tma person who speaks on transmisogyny. seeing this resurgence of transmisgoyny and more importantly the pushback it's gotten from the majority of tma people on this site makes me want to talk about our experiences because we endured the exact same thing, though we and our friends didn't get very much support. i'm hoping things will be different this time around.

anyway, sorry for the unprompted infodump, i just thought you might find it interesting. lol

@antioceas