Every time I see trans terminology debates I just want to scream at how (white) American-anglocentric it is.
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The standard American English trans community has re-litigated the terms it uses for self-id at least 4 times in the past few years. meanwhile, trans women not in America die.
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It's not that language doesn't matter. It's that we spend an enormous amount of energy infighting on a matter that only truly affects relatively privileged American trans folks.
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And like, even in the US we have bigger immediate issues. The Nazis didn't care whether we wrote trans or trans*. They tried to make me dead either way.
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I love this community but christ some people could argue over nothing for days on end.
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Ze makes a good point.
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