What are your opinions on using transgender vs using transexual? Ive been seeing more trans feminine people use transexual to refer to themselves these days and I thought I had it figured out but im confused. Originally, how i saw it was transphobic dolls trying to distance themselves from the rest of the transgender community at large. But the more i read about trans theory and talk to trans women, im finding more and more "cool" trans women calling themselves transexuals. What am I missing?
This is a great and very informative comment, and seems to match what I've been seeing reading through zines and other stuff on https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/ "Transsexual" definitely seemed like the more common term for most of the 20th century even into the 1990's, though it also does seem like "transgender" starts to get used more around that time.