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Literally LOL. I may not always agree with rudefems, but they sure can fucking meme.
I agree with your overall point, but not the specifics. "Trans" as they use it isn't the same as the prefix "trans", but an abbreviation of the
word transsexual/transgender. In that sense it is more grammatically accurate (though factually inaccurate) to call a TiM a "trans[gender] woman" than a "trans[gender]woman".
Of course, if they're going to do something as linguistically annoying as abbreviating a term into its own prefix then we should be allowed to use that abbreviation as a prefix otherwise that's an arbitrary place to draw the line. Really though, most people really shouldn't care one way or another, trannies throwing a fit over whether people can use a compound word is purely a power play and I support mini acts of rebellion like removing the space.
Also, in my opinion a handyman
can be a woman, but a dandy man really can't. "Handyman" is a compound word and therefore the "man" part isn't necessarily literal in the way that it is for "dandy man".
I have a theory that a big part of modern day gender confusion has to do with the way that sex and maturity to form western "gender" categories. Basically, becoming a man/woman wasn't just something that automatically happened when you reached a certain age, it was something that had some ritual or accomplishment tied to it, whether that was menarche, reading the Torah, or killing a lion. So we have these people who become men/women when they turn 18, but they don't feel any different than they did a few days ago. Hell, nowadays they probably didn't even have a big birthday bash, they just hung out with some friends and then had a fancy dinner with their family.
And the things that we call "manly" or "womanly" aren't necessarily
that gendered. Yeah, we do typically consider chopping wood to be a
manly thing, but if no man is around to do that then of course we expect the woman to do that, it's not that big a deal. We do typically consider taking care of children a
womanly thing, but if no woman is around to do it then of course we expect the man to do that, it's not that big a deal. And sometimes this extends to really basic stuff like keeping your home in order which can be either
manly or
womanly. But really these things are
adult more than
manly or
womanly. And when some males reach adulthood they don't want to do the
manly stuff because they haven't really become adults in their mind, but they know that they are adults so they figure that they must not be men but women. Same thing happens for some females who reach adulthood and don't want to do the
womanly stuff.
I was at a concert last week and a TiF was in line behind me for the bathroom and frankly it didn't even occur to me to be uncomfortable with her in the bathroom, not even annoyed that a woman was using the men's room since the line for the women's room was longer.
There was piss all over the toilet seat in the stall that I used and then she went into directly after me, it was there before I went in, but I have to wonder if she thinks that was me hatecriming her?
Anyway, the reason for that TMI was just so I could mention that I've clocked 2 TiFs in the wild in the couple months since things started opening up and I had never clocked one in the wild before. I have to wonder, am I just better at troonspotting or have the number of TiFs also increased?