The word 'tgirl'

[techno883]

Originally Posted by Stefanmlc

Hi all,

Never address a transgender lady with the words 'shemale' or 'trannie', for a lot of transgender women those are names that are not respectful.

But what about the 'tgirl'? Is that oke, or not?

I'm the last person to suggest an answer to this but just to put things into a slanted perception, what of a popular site or blog where they promote Transgender's under the title 'Shemale's' ? They usually, actually I'm assuming, attract many guys outside the Transgender community. And eventually many of those 'attracted' become enamored with TG's (TS' which I'm still trying to understand the minute differences of). All I can say is, as with any ethnicity, unless you are part of them, you will never truly understand the inner most thoughts and nuances of that group. Maybe what I'm trying to say is, if we outside the 'communities inner circle' Transgender's should try to understand our ignorance and instead of hearing the word(s), listen to the tone of how they are said. All of us may know a foreign language, but it takes someone living it to understand the dialect. Or am I being optimistically stupid? While perusing some past comments/posts I seen a user/member who has signed themself as 'New Believer'. LOL, Wish I thought of that tag. You still with the group NB?

[Stefanmlc]

oh, yea it depends also on the region you are living in. While the term 'ladyboy' is much accepted in the Asian word, in the western part of the world not so much. To call a transgender woman in the western world an ladyboy, trannie or shemale can be offended because those names are related to the sex industry.

But like almost everything in life, this 'rule' does not apply to everyone of course.