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[-] Tilgare@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

It makes me feel icky to type it out... The terms "tranny" and "transvestite" were very common nomenclature in the 90s. In conversation, movies, television. Trans people were often a punchline. And absolutely existed.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Transvestite, I believe, is also a term applied to intersex persons as well, as far as I know.... At least historically.

The condition of being intersex, as far as I'm aware, is a well known condition dating back really far.

Those people truly have no gender (and/or they're both genders? IDK), so "trans" doesn't really apply to them IMO.

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

intersex people are exactly that - somewhere outside of the binary of the two sexes. Thanks to them we see the clearest example of how gender is simply assigned to a child at birth. Majority of intersex children are forced into one of the binary sexes and then forcefully assigned a gender to match so they can be "normal".

and it honestly comes down to the individual if they see themselves as trans or not, some might see what their parents did to be a forced transition, some might want to detransition from that, some might not

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

People used to use hermaphrodite as a slur not that long ago for intersex people, as well.

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