Transgender Terminology To Avoid

TRANSGENDER TERMINOLOGY TO AVOID

PROBLEMATIC TERMINOLOGY

PROBLEMATIC: "transgenders," "a transgender"
PREFERRED: "transgender people," "a transgender person"
Transgender should be used as an adjective, not as a noun. Do not say, "Tony is a transgender," or "The parade included many transgenders." Instead say, "Tony is a transgender person," or "The parade included many transgender people."

PROBLEMATIC: "transgendered"
PREFERRED: "transgender"
The word transgender never needs the extraneous "ed" at the end of the word. In fact, such a construction is grammatically incorrect. Only verbs can be transformed into participles by adding "-ed" to the end of the word, and transgender is an adjective, not a verb.

PROBLEMATIC: "sex change," "pre-operative," "post-operative"
PREFERRED: "transition"
Referring to a sex change operation, or using terms such as pre- or post-operative, inaccurately suggests that one must have surgery in order to truly change one's sex.

PROBLEMATIC: "hermaphrodite"
PREFERRED: "intersex person"
The word "hermaphrodite" is an outdated, stigmatizing and misleading word, usually used to sensationalize intersex people.

DEFAMATORY TERMINOLOGY

Defamatory: "deceptive," "fooling," "pretending," "posing," or "masquerading"
Gender identity is an integral part of a person's identity. Please do not characterize transgender people as "deceptive," as "fooling" other people, or as "pretending" to be, "posing" or "masquerading" as a man or a woman. Such descriptions are extremely insulting.

Defamatory: "she-male," "he-she," "it," "trannie," "tranny," "gender-bender," "chick with dick," "ladyboy"
These words only serve to dehumanize transgender people and should not be used.

NAMES & PRONOUN USAGE

We encourage you to use a transgender person's chosen name. Often transgender people cannot afford a legal name change or are not yet old enough to change their name legally. They should be afforded the same respect for their chosen name as anyone else who lives by a name other than their birth name (e.g., celebrities).

We also encourage you to ask transgender people which pronoun they would like you to use. A person who identifies as a certain gender, whether or not they have taken hormones or had surgery, should be referred to using the pronouns appropriate for that gender.

If it is not possible to ask the person which pronoun he or she prefers, use the pronoun that is consistent with the person's appearance and gender expression. For example, if the person wears a dress and uses the name "Susan," feminine pronouns are appropriate.

It is never appropriate to put quotation marks around either the transgender person's chosen name or the pronoun that reflects their gender identity.

Edited, Based on GLAAD

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lovingsoul...
bad experienced I take it as a good lesson,
good times I saved it as good memories..

love, peace and happiness..

Need to ask admin to stick this topic or write some positions from this topic into the board rules because some people are keep using words 'ladyboy' and 'tgirl' here

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Ciao ciao,
Monica

Good idea Monica..

yup, that will help people to keep on using those terms.. offending..

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lovingsoul...
bad experienced I take it as a good lesson,
good times I saved it as good memories..

love, peace and happiness..

I came across a new word today when someone used it and I had no idea what it meant at the time. I found out just now and I wanted to ask about it. Newhalf... is that a bad word too? I have no clue, sorry.

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All anyone can be is themselves

I still cannot understand why this particular term ('ladyboy') could be construed as dehumanizing when referring to a transgender person. Both lady and boy aren't derogatory unless, say, the former is used to refer to a homosexual male or the latter to a someone of an African origin. But even then, it would all be dependent upon delivery.
I suppose the appellation could come across as slightly patronizing from a hyper-sensitive person's viewpoint... if you really wanted to draw a bow THAT long!
But I really can't subscribe to 'ladyboy' being derogatory. I just can't... : /

In any case, it's only a word, and as such:

'Words are but words, I never yet did hear;
That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear!' -Shakespeare

And if anyone is the word on words, it's Willy Shake! So...
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As far as I know that term is also benign. It's what the Japanese dub transgender people (as distinct from 'futarani', which is used to refer to hermaphroditic peeps). I've heard it used freely, on Japanese TV, magazines etc... So, given how much of an integral part of Japanese culture etiquette and politeness is, I think it highly unlikely it has any offensive connotation.
If anything, breaking the word down (new + half) tends to imply something forward or avant garde. Something evolved. So it would be closer to a compliment in my mind.
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OMG, here comes the next "Know-It-All" from Australia and is writing in almost each thread his stuff. It seems to me, Australians are people with the biggest knowledge about tgirls.
Does nobody realize what is going on here?
At first comes a crafty customer who is called "CinIsIn". She/he joined the board at the end of November and is supposed to be a tgirl and social worker. Then she/he does write her shit in almost each thread and... on 05 December she/he is gone.
Now comes the next Aussie - Sablicious - supposedly a male; he/she writes his stuff in a similar style like the other one and thinks he/she can teach all the other member in here about tgirls.
What shit happens here?
Jay, come on man... wake up now.

You're smokin' what now...? o_0

a) You're an insecure plebeian that is easily threatened by those apparently more knowledgeable than your self-loathing self.
b) You're oh so intuitive self 'curiously' hasn't the nous even to simply peruse the affiliate date site and see that my forum pseudonym not only carries over to thus site, but is (surprised! surprise! ) accompanied by a profile... recent picture inclusive! ...and
c) Your fear and insecurities permeate your entire being through the inability to accept that you (like all of us... if the qualification yields any solace and stops you slitting your wrists ) are wrong more often than you are right... as in this case.

You're a dime-a-dozen pal. I eat dullards like you for breakfast! You're a detractor... 'troll', I think the modern vernacular is. And like all trolls are advised, sit down [back under your bridge] before you FALL down!

*grumblestupidnever-been-laid50-plusladyboylechersextouristsgrumble*
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(PS: 10/10 for conveniently eliding the fact of someone taking the time to show interest and actually POST something in these half-past-dead forums and instead going off half-cocked, straight for the jugular like some over-protective 'dormant forum NAZI'! )

Well done Aussie. You perform very well, especially the last part of your explanation. So you show us what kind of person you be. Anyway I think I be right with my suspicion relating to you and the other one.

I don't even know who the "other one" is (nor care!), let alone know what your major malfunction is! (...other than the aforementioned, psychological issue-related observations I made ).

At any rate, I'm not here to "show" or prove anything. I'm just here to proffer some input from my own humble transgender experience/knowledge.

own experiences/knowledge with or about TS... You? what experiences do you mean, dude? How old are you? 31 wow, then you have certainly loads of experiences relating TS. Yeah yeah, there is no doubt that you are the only one with the biggest knowledge.