@thequeerteacher
Just to clarify the word trans is an adjective that helps describe someone's gender identity, and it should be treated like other adjectives. So trans woman or trans man instead of transwoman or transman.
@thequeerteacher
Just to clarify that’s a faith based ideological position you’re expressing there, not a neutral, objective fact.
You believe it’s to be right. I believe it’s misogynistic bullshit.
Trans is not an adjective here: in this case it’s a prefix that completely changes the meaning of the word it’s being applied to.
Here are some examples of how actual adjectives work with the word “woman”, and how trans is not in that category:
Tall woman: adult human female who is tall
Young woman: adult human female who is young
Wise woman: adult human female who is wise
All these adjectives are used to tell us more about someone we know to be an adult human female.
Transwoman: adult human male who “identifies as”/wishes to be seen as a woman, ie that which he is (of necessity) not.
It tells us that this person is not of the group “adult human females” but wishes to appropriate their material reality as his identity, and he’s using his male privilege and power to do so, backed up by a fundamentally misogynistic, patriarchal society that is predicated upon catering to male demands at the expense of female people.
You want an imaginary space in there because it bolsters your pretence that “trans” is an adjective that describes the noun “woman” in the same way that “tall”, “young”, “wise” etc do; it bolsters your pretence that some adult human males “are” in some way women, that that nebulous indefinable concept of “gender identity” is more important, more fundamental than the reality of biological sex.
(This despite the fact that biological sex is the basis on which the male sex class has oppressed and continues to oppress the female sex class since time immemorial, and if we no longer have meaningful terms with which to name and analyse that oppression, that oppression will only be perpetuated and intensified.)
Many pp here refuse to put that space in precisely because they will not collude in pretending that any adult human males can actually be a subset of adult human females. They are not interested in your sleight of hand.
I personally refuse to use the term either with or without the space because I won’t collude in naming male people with a word that even contains the word “woman”, so damaging is that practice to the interests of actual women. Biologically male trans people are male. Not women of any kind.
HTH.