What are your opinions on using transgender vs using transexual? Ive been seeing more trans feminine people use transexual to refer to themselves these days and I thought I had it figured out but im confused. Originally, how i saw it was transphobic dolls trying to distance themselves from the rest of the transgender community at large. But the more i read about trans theory and talk to trans women, im finding more and more “cool” trans women calling themselves transexuals. What am I missing?
My two cents, the weaponization of the word “sex” might be part of this.
Transphobic example
“I thought sex and gender were different? And we divide bathrooms/sports/whatever based on sex!”
After a certain point the gender/sex distinction is meaningless (years of hormones completely changing your hormonal sex and sexual phenotype) so people holding sex over our heads has become increasingly frustrating and alien to our experiences.
This all leads me to want to say that, and for example I do say I changed my sex or that my sex is now female, but the conflation of being trans and sexuality is the reason I don’t generally use the word. Being trans has to do with my sex/gender but not to do with my sexual attraction or sexuality.