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downbeatplumb · February 2, 2014 at 7:10 am

TaraJo · February 2, 2014 at 8:52 am

FlyingNarwhal · February 2, 2014 at 3:08 pm

I never understood why tranny is considered bad. If I had a buddy named Transsexual, his nickname would be Tranny. That's really all I've ever looked at it as, a cute nickname.

LastPoet · (This post was last modified: February 2, 2014 at 3:35 pm by LastPoet.)

People keep changing name! Panic

This is too much hubris about a referral and a deterrent on the real issues.

Chad32 · (This post was last modified: February 2, 2014 at 3:42 pm by Chad32.)

I find it annoying when there's kind of a long word, but a shortened version of the word is considered highly offensive. Like when I referred to someone as black, outside of any racist topic, and she went straight to the principle of the school because I didn't use African American. Transsexual/gender is a bit shorter, but still we as a people are predisposed to using small words when we can.

I don't call people black to be offensive. I call people black because someone decided the PC term nowadays should be a seven syllable phrase. That isn't even accurate unless you're an African immigrant, but that's another topic.

TaraJo · February 2, 2014 at 9:16 pm

(February 2, 2014 at 3:08 pm)FlyingNarwhal Wrote: I never understood why tranny is considered bad. If I had a buddy named Transsexual, his nickname would be Tranny. That's really all I've ever looked at it as, a cute nickname.

I don't entirely get it, either. I mean, I get how some people want, so badly, to be able to play the sympathy card that they're going to turn everything into their victimization, but it isn't exactly like transsexuals don't already have plenty of real issues to complain about without creating issues of our own. I mean, has anyone here ever seen Boys Don't Cry? That's a real issue, not this little piddly shit.

But, then, I get that some people find the word offensive so I simply don't use the word except around people who I'm fairly confident are going to be laid back enough that they won't have a stroke over it.

BrokenQuill92 · February 2, 2014 at 9:22 pm

I just refer to people by their preference of pronoun

TaraJo · February 2, 2014 at 10:00 pm

(February 2, 2014 at 9:22 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: I just refer to people by their preference of pronoun

Context of the conversation doesn't always allow that.

BrokenQuill92 · February 2, 2014 at 10:09 pm

(February 2, 2014 at 10:00 pm)TaraJo Wrote:
(February 2, 2014 at 9:22 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: I just refer to people by their preference of pronoun

Context of the conversation doesn't always allow that.

Because of blindness when I'm not sure sometimes I have to simple ask. If I'm not sure about gender and I don't want to upset someone I usually ask. Most people are pretty understanding. It doesn't even have to be a trans person, if someone sounds rather neutral I ask.

My imaginary friend is GOD

"Tranny" is offensive, but there are much more offensive words that could be used, and it's kinda akin to using the word "homo" instead of "homosexual" or "lezzy" instead of "lesbian." It's kinda an abbreviation, so how mad can you really be about people using that terminology?

(February 2, 2014 at 10:09 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: Because of blindness when I'm not sure sometimes I have to simple ask. If I'm not sure about gender and I don't want to upset someone I usually ask. Most people are pretty understanding. It doesn't even have to be a trans person, if someone sounds rather neutral I ask.

By the way, I'm genderqueer and I'm alright with whatever gender words you choose to describe me.

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