I am sick and tired of people using OUR labels for their own gain
Trans people have desperately worked for decades, if not more, for basic transitioning rights. And we've been mostly successful. But, mainstream ever since I'd say the 1990s, there have been people attempting to take our labels (transsexual, trans), come up with "transgender" as an umbrella to include us and themselves (crossdressers and fetishists), say "trans" means the same thing, and say that "transsexual" is actually highly offensive (because it literally implies it has to do with sex and not gender).
A REMINDER THAT "TRANSGENDER" WAS COINED AS A TERM NOT JUST FOR TRANS PEOPLE, BUT FOR FETISHISTS AND FOR CROSSDRESSERS, AND MANY MORE, COMPLETELY WATERING IT DOWN. IT IS DESIGNED TO SOUND LIKE "TRANS" AND "TRANSSEXUAL" TO IMPLY THAT THEY ARE THE SAME THING. THEY ARE NOT. DO NOT USE THE WORD "TRANSGENDER", UNLESS YOU HAVE SPECIFIED THIS AND ARE USING IT FOR FETISHISTS IN QUOTATION MARKS. USE "TRANS" OR "TRANSSEXUAL".
Why do you think conservatives always talk about how "well all transgender people are just fetishists trying to get into women's bathrooms so they can rape them"? Because they've seen "transgender" people who actually do this. These people are deliberately using wording that implies that genuine transsexuals are the same as them, leading conservatives to think, "all trans people are bad, and dysphoria is just a front for nefarious means".
If you use the word "transgender" for yourself, please stop immediately. Despite what the "Transgender" Mob and those they have brainwashed will tell you, it is harmful, and you can verify this yourself by looking up the origin of the word "transgender". If you have dysphoria, you should instead say, "I am trans" or "I am [a] transsexual".
Then, these people will notice that their "transsexual is bad" thing isn't working, and they try to redefine what "transsexual" means. "Transsexual" is based on the word "transsexualism", a disorder of unknown causes always resulting in severe sex dysphoria (also known as "Gender Dysphoria"). These people will tell you that "transsexual" just means someone who wants to change their sex. Not someone who needs to because of their sex dysphoria... wants to. That is what we have been watered down to.
