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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Whats the deal with using the phrase "social justice warrior" as an insult?
 
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Thuryl
Mar 14, 2007

My postillion has been struck by lightning.

ashgromnies posted:

Interesting. So you seem to be arguing for biological transsexualism rather than transgenderism.

From my understanding, sex is biological but gender is a social construct: so no surgery or hormonal replacement is theoretically necessary to be transgender.

Why then are the two terms so conflated? Why do most people getting SRS(*sexual* reassignment surgery) call themselves transgender as opposed to transsexual?

Thanks for answering my questions, I ask out of genuine curiosity and am afraid to ask such questions in the E/N trans thread.

The short answer is that many trans people these days prefer to avoid the word "transsexual" because it's picked up a lot of negative connotations beyond its literal meaning. Nowadays it's probably more common to just use "trans" as an umbrella term to cover either or both anyway.

(Also, just as an interesting piece of trivia, the official term used for SRS here in Australia is "gender affirmation surgery", which has always sounded kinda funny to me but whatever.)

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