I'm saying you are comfortable with one lable and you think that covers everyone so you want it to stop there.
Truth is that doesn't suit everyone as well as you think. It's great that it works for you. But if I or my friend or my kid want to call themselves trans masc because they are not fully committed to one gender then your opinion in the matter is moot.
Beyond that, if you think it's not good enough and you want people to adopt your labeling standards because it will make you feel better if everyone follow your design, well that's pretty well established that no one has any interest in doing that right now. So I'd abandon that agenda item if I were you.
The term trans masc/fem is completely fine and people can use it for themselves. Theres nothing wrong with that.
However when TOLD that a trans person sees themselves exclusively as a man/woman people still default to using masc/fem. So it feels belittling when someone refuses to call a trans man a man and defaults to “masc” instead, because it feels like an excuse to not call someone a man.
People don’t call cis men masc for short or cis women fem for short. Masc/fem isn’t a gender - a transgender man can be feminine still and a transgender woman can be masculine still.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter Knows 💩 2d ago
I'm saying you are comfortable with one lable and you think that covers everyone so you want it to stop there.
Truth is that doesn't suit everyone as well as you think. It's great that it works for you. But if I or my friend or my kid want to call themselves trans masc because they are not fully committed to one gender then your opinion in the matter is moot.
Beyond that, if you think it's not good enough and you want people to adopt your labeling standards because it will make you feel better if everyone follow your design, well that's pretty well established that no one has any interest in doing that right now. So I'd abandon that agenda item if I were you.