Shemales or Transsexuals

[Bionca]

Originally Posted by Tsluver23

My thing is if the person still has a cock then it's a shemale. Not until you go forth with castration will you be considered a transexual.

I'm not even going to get into transgender vs. Transsexual because that's a stupid way to split hairs.

This issue isn't even at what point one can/should be considered trans* (either gendered or sexual). It has become a discussion of the word "shemale". You have 100% of M2F women here saying they don't like the word to some degree or another. I know plenty of trans*women who work all types of jobs - from escort to teacher and only one of them has any desire to use that word for herself (and she's not in "the industry").

Of the gals who work as escorts or in porn none of them like it. They use it for business reasons and will respond to it, but they don't actually like it. It isn't clever, or empowering, or cute, or even particularly descriptive.

If one is serious about an attraction to Trans*women, perhaps it would be a good idea to leave a word that is problematic for so many of us behind or expect many of us to be offended when it is used.