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Transsexual just means you've had some kind of trans related medical intervention (usually bottom surgery, but it can sometimes be used more broadly too). It's not a flex word, or a word meant to make other people feel less, it's just a descriptor that some folx prefer to use. In general you shouldn't be calling other people that unless you know for sure its something they are okay with, but people are free to call themselves whatever they want.
I am one of many people who dislikes terms conflating gender with procedures & medications as gender has nothing to do with that, so I default to terms using sex (SRS, Transsexual, etc). It's not perfect ofc, but there is precedent for that language so I think it's okay for now.
Not even that is something that's universally agreed upon.
For example, from Whipping Girl:
Would be cool if we could have consistent definitions for words, but doesn't seem like that's likely to happen.
Regardless of if it's meant to be a flex term or not, it will be, and given how gender and sex for many people is holistic and unified, an insistence to police transsexual to mean "has gone through medical transition" merely serves to disregard people who are a sex other than they were assigned at birth, but did not get some surgery/procedure as they did not see it as necessary for their view of it. Transsexual must include a holistic concept of sex in its definition of it will only ever be a flex term... And if you consider its historical usage seemed pretty vague and inclusive (anyone who are trans their sex whatever that means), it seems ahistorical to retcon it- It would be analogous to identifying as bi because you are attracted to only two genders or something.