Okay I gotta ask since I’ve seen it a bunch recently but when did transgender as a noun become accepted. It’s an adjective.
I’ve seen trans people be called a Trans multiple times recently and it never got challenged but it always feels icky to me. I’m a transgender woman or a trans woman for short. If you want to shorten it further you may call me a woman but not a trans
I think the usage there isn’t meant to be correct, but incorrect as a joke. It’s like how I’ve seen people call themselves a tran. (Trans is obviously plural.)
I try to avoid using nouns in general for folks (because it’s hard to tell through online/voice calls and I end up forgetting due to bad brain), so I end up just using they/them, you, or something more abstract (gamers, pals, friendos) to refer to people.
While I haven’t engaged in using trans as a noun, I’d imagine others would for simplicity’s sake, at least in their mind.
If the fucker thinks that Metroid and Zelda are “baby games” you already can tell he’s not the smartest of the bunch.
On the other side I never did called someone just “trans” but is good to know that it does matter.
Okay I gotta ask since I’ve seen it a bunch recently but when did transgender as a noun become accepted. It’s an adjective. I’ve seen trans people be called a Trans multiple times recently and it never got challenged but it always feels icky to me. I’m a transgender woman or a trans woman for short. If you want to shorten it further you may call me a woman but not a trans
I think the usage there isn’t meant to be correct, but incorrect as a joke. It’s like how I’ve seen people call themselves a tran. (Trans is obviously plural.)
I hadn’t read that yet and laughed at that joke for a solid minute.
they do be enallage sometimes!
I try to avoid using nouns in general for folks (because it’s hard to tell through online/voice calls and I end up forgetting due to bad brain), so I end up just using they/them, you, or something more abstract (gamers, pals, friendos) to refer to people.
While I haven’t engaged in using trans as a noun, I’d imagine others would for simplicity’s sake, at least in their mind.
If the fucker thinks that Metroid and Zelda are “baby games” you already can tell he’s not the smartest of the bunch. On the other side I never did called someone just “trans” but is good to know that it does matter.