Understanding transgenderism.

[John 6IX Breezy]

Let's not call it an 'ism'. Peoples identities can't and shouldn't be reduced to a condition. I doubt anyone intentionally used it that way, but it's a word that's become so entrenched in our vernacular by anti-trans folks that people don't give it much thought when they use it.

Why do you feel there's an issue with -ism? Language needs a way to refer to things. And given that the word transgender refers to the individuals, we are left with a linguistic void for the mental experience that they all share. Transgenderism seems like an appropriate word until a new word is coined to take it's place.

I think maturity is required when dealing with topics about mental experiences, and we shouldn't strive to make every classification seem synonymous with a stigmatization. That's an ever losing battle, and language will always find a way to fill the gaps.

Transgenderism shouldn't be seen as any more or less of a dehuminizing word than autism, parkinsonism, neuroticism, etc.