Is someone a "trans person" because they are actively transitioning? Or are they trans because they have gender dysphoria, and whether they transition or not is irrelevant?
>>43656980Imo trans == transitioning/transitionedIf you're dysphoric and not transitioning you're just dysphoric Also this means that non dysphorics who transition (ex: PAISoids) are trans
>>43656980“Trans” is an adjective that describes people who have changed or are changing their sex phenotype or what is called their “gender expression”. How a person feels doesn’t enter into whether a person is trans at all. (If it did, then I wouldn’t be able to clock trannies in public because I would need to know how they feel in order to learn that they’re trans, which I don’t.)
>>43656980outside of 4chan and transmaxxing spaces it's very clearly the former (with transition being the implied unavoidable consequence of dysphoria), but my take is that there's an archetypical trans person who's both dysphoric and transitioning and your trasns status is determined by similarity to that archetype (like most other terms really)like someone who has been seriously dysphoric since childhood but is repping in some third world shithole is obviously trans even if they don't identify as such, it seems delusional to me to argue otherwise. that's pretty much the old school stereotypical tranny. on the other hand if someone had 0 dysphoria ever, but transitioned anyway and is now living as a woman with no intent to go back, sees herself as a woman etc., that's ridiculous to argue they're not trans too. both extremes clearly countbut outside of the extremes of course it gets muddy, are those japanese guys that are fine with being men but would love to be an anime girl trans? probably a mixed bagmy most important take here tho is that if you have strong opinions on either you're outing yourself as a tranny and I've rarely been wrong
