Changing your name and your pronouns is a decisive step -- because of what it symbolically represents to gatekeepers like you -- but in the grand scheme of things it's just one aspect of gendered presentation among many
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Hence, you know, people who *don't* treat names and pronouns as clear and unambiguous "markers of transition" Plenty of kids these days who go "Pronouns: any", plenty of "he/him lesbians" from way back in the day
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The fact is most people in the "trans community" as it was in the past and as it is now have for the most part been far less dogmatic about what it means to "really" transition and to specifically nail down exactly what your gender identity is than their attackers
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Hence the TERFs clinging to Eddie Izzard as an icon for decades of "a man who proves you can do feminine things without being a woman", only for her to "betray" them by saying "Well... no, I kinda *was* doing them because I felt I was a woman"
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"Transvestite and transgender and just plain 'trans' were all different words for the same people You said whatever you needed to say to be understood enough that they'd let you live your life as you wanted"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
yeah there's a reason the community eventually landed on "trans" as the general term! indeed, "trans" itself is a shortening of "trans*," where the missing suffix is made explicit!
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Replying to @elliotreed @arthur_affect
i speak merely on the basis of my own experiences, i haven't actually done a careful survey i just recall that when i came out people still cared about the difference between transsexual and transgender
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I remember at my college around 2006/07 there was a big internal fight over whether "transgender" or "transgendered" was the correct spelling and whether the other one was essentializing and offensive (using similar logic to reach opposite conclusions)
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I'm pretty sure the one that isn't a verb has always been the dominant version but that the "-ed" version was invented to be more PC as a kind of linguistic hypercorrection
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But it's so ambiguous what it means for "transgender" to be a verb you could take opposite interpretations of it ("I am only defined as 'trans' because of being forcibly assigned at birth by society" vs "I used to be cis then became trans")
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