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 used to not like the word transexual because it gave me connotations of like....Tim Curry crossdressing and porn.
But now I think it's kind of a powerful and subversive declaration that you can in fact change your sex which many people, even cis allies, deny.
Transgender makes it sound like I have changed my gender, when it is the other way around; I've changed my sex to match my gender.
Furthermore I think we need a term for people who have unique experiences due to the fact they are changing their sex or desire to do so that the word transgender as an umbrella term doesn't really encompass.