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Trangender people don't typically use the term "Transgendered." It implies something has "happened to" them rather than who they "are."
The Mahalo article on Stu Rasmussen frequently uses the term "transgendered." This may sound correct in English, but transgender people will tell you differently.
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First of all, this isn't really a question, but it does raise an interesting point.
I don't understand how the term "transgendered" implies that something "happened to" the person. Could you maybe explain that?
Also I found a lot of resources that use the word "transgender" in some of which a person was referring to themselves as transgender. So I'm not sure that your statement that its something that transgender people say is accurate.
http://iamtransgendered.com/
http://www.transfaithonline.org/articles/the_struggle/iamt/
http://community.livejournal.com/transgender
http://www.ifge.org/
I don't understand how the term "transgendered" implies that something "happened to" the person. Could you maybe explain that?
Also I found a lot of resources that use the word "transgender" in some of which a person was referring to themselves as transgender. So I'm not sure that your statement that its something that transgender people say is accurate.
http://iamtransgendered.com/
http://www.transfaithonline.org/articles/the_struggle/iamt/
http://community.livejournal.com/transgender
http://www.ifge.org/
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I work for one of the largest LGBT advocacy groups in the country. We've been repeatedly hit over the head by transgender supporters for use of the term "transgendered" to describe a person. Make of it what you will -- I'm not here to argue, just to point out a preferred term and be respectful of that preference.