I read an article yesterday by a trans individual. The article complained about the use of "the T-slur" used by a celebrity. The author made it sound like this word was seriously offensive to them and other trans people. I couldn't figure out what the word was. I would think that if something were that offensive I would have heard about it but you could fill a sports stadium with what I don't know about the Trans community. I could use an education.
Are you referring to something involving RuPaul? He's been in the media a lot for defending his love and usage of the "t word" (or tr*nny). It's a deeply offensive word in the community that's generally used to degrade and shame transwomen, and largely has it's roots in the porn industry. It's not okay to say, and even as a trans person, that's a word I'd like to avoid hearing (though the word isn't usually aimed towards me as a transguy, but I know people who have used it against my partner who is a femme transguy). I've gotten into arguments with cisgender (non trans) people saying why it's not okay, and it's just mindboggling to see how many people told me to stop whining and why it's not a big deal. In my eyes, it's like white people pitching a fit when they get told why it's not okay to say the "n word" or straight people doing the same thing over the "f word". It's so ridiculous and upsetting. Why do people want to say a word that oppresses and kills people so damn badly?
I'm pretty sure the word is tranny. People tend to use it the same way they do faggot, but in regards to a trans person instead of a gay person.
Ok, I had no idea that people found that word to be offensive. I had perceived it as a kind of lazy shorthand or maybe a silly way to refer to a trans woman. I guess an example would be the characters in Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I'm thinking that's why people don't take it seriously is that it's intended more in that derpy manner than derogatory. But obviously when you're in the minority group who is hurt by the language it sucks to have people downplay it. I think it is also running up against the widespread backlash we are seeing now against political correctness and thought policing. I'm not saying that asking people not to use this slur is thoughtpolicing but that legitimate complaints are also getting caught up and obscured by it.
I think there is a lot of education that needs to be done in regards to transgender and homosexual people. I honestly think that it should all be apart of sex education. I do know a lot of people who use tranny as a shortened form of transgender/transexual, and the trans cmunity had laid into them. At the time the people didn't know it was considered a slur, it was all they had ever heard us called.
Wait, what?! How dare you add that gay agenda into our American schools? All American children are cisgendered and heterosexual, they do not need brainwashing!
