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?
I think a big part of why "transsexual" fell out of fashion is because words ending in -sexual often denote sexual orientation, like homosexual, bisexual etc. and people didn't want to reinforce the false idea that being trans is a sexuality