Does anyone else really dislike the term transsexual?

Miku Luna \ she/it@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Transfem@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 67 points –

It's apparently supposed to make a distinction between trans people before/after bottom surgery. I doubt that's a common use for that word, but I still have a few points against that specifically:

  • I don't think it's ok to make a distinction those in this way
  • It straight up ignores that not everyone wants bottom surgery
  • It's not even the way '-sexual' is used normally.

Most people just use it interchangeably with transgender to my knowledge.

If I hadn't heard of it in context it's commonly used in, I would think that it's the attraction to trans people.

Idk if I'm making any sense here, I suck at saying/writing things that do

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I've never heard GSM, I've only ever heard GSRM where the R stands for romantic, because, well, it's different from sexual

Huh. Yeah, that is better.

tbh I see the term so rarely in the wild that I probably just saw GSM somewhere and it stuck in my brain. Oof

I remember seeing GSM a lot more like a decade ago and don't remember seeing GSRM until more recently.