Transgender Female

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Hi, lurker who loves hanging out here and learning from you fabulous ladies. Trying to unpack something I've just seen. An event at work covering each letter in LGBT to raise awareness or whatever. Good start as the events seem to actually cover each letter separately.

I noticed at the T event, the speaker describes herself as a "transgender female" which is obviously meaningless. Or at least to me means, transgender man. But definitely a transwoman going by the rest of the description and photo.

I don't really know what I'm asking, perhaps this is common now to avoid the word woman as perhaps it is seen as toxic?

It's trying to reinforce people's vague and incorrect notion that humans can actually change sex

twitter.com/JeanHatchet/status/1531191329656553472

You can't say female now to mean what it used to

Well some people will try to tell you that you can't.

You don't have to do as they say.

It's like the word 'homophobia'. I have listened for a long time trying to work out some shared meaning with people who insist it doesn't mean 'prejudice against same sex relationships' but.... something else, and that I'm definitely homophobic as a lesbian for saying.... homosexuality is about sex... or something...

In the end I have had to regretfully conclude that after much trying to believe this was in good faith and trying to understand that I still have no idea what they mean by their different version of 'homophobia', and I also conclude that they don't either. They can't explain it, they don't know what they mean any more than I do. So I am going back to what I understand the word means and what everyone else successfully understands the word as meaning and if some people don't like this, then it's their problem rather than mine.

'Woman' has been similarly trashed. Also 'inclusion' and 'kind' and 'diversity'. Queering really as far as I can see just means 'mess up to no purpose with no gain other than having caused confusion and chaos and exerted personal control'. Not my thing really. I don't see anything good there.

The goal is to have zero words that would mean an individual who belongs to the female sex. Fascinatingly, nothing similar seems to be the goal when it comes to the male sex. They are still called men and boys. I have never seen 'a transgender male' used for a trans man.

This is all interesting as a natural experiment on how sexism is everywhere in the society, including inside the heads of many women, and how this results in unequal outcomes for women (adults of the female sex)

I was mildly ironic, of course I can say whatever I want to name something, but the whole point of language is that it has to mean the same thing in the head of the sender and the the head of the receiver for it to work properly.

So I can say 'woman' to mean well, whatever it used to mean in ye olden days, but much more of this nonsense and it will only be a limited number of people who understand it the way I mean it.

I did naively think that 'female' would retain its meaning of human of the gestating variety but nope that one is on the way out now too.

Their job history was a bit more coloured than that, but the psych specialisms I thought would be of particular interest here.

Qualifications...
Currently doing Phd
MSc Psychology
NMP: Non Medical Prescribing
Point of Care Ultrasound (level 1)
European Paediatric Advanced Life Support -
Advanced Life Support -
Advanced Hand Assessment and Management
UCPD Forensic and Legal Medicine
Emergency Surgical Skills
Trauma x-ray interpretation
DipHE Paramedic Practice
BA (Hons) Japanese and Marketing
Japanese Language

Plus a career in the police, a paramedic, currently working on 2 emergency wards while doing PhD.

Might not be a traditional academic, but that's quite an interesting career. So I'm intrigued to hear what she has to say on her 'lived experience' as trans. I'd rather hear about the more interesting stuff she's been doing in her line of work tbh. Seems to have done well, so will find out what barriers she claims to have encountered and at what... point in her career they started to happen

So - I think this is the person you're talking about (googled the bio). Based on this article, I'm not so sure the talk will that enlightening.... www.linkedin.com/pulse/transgender-101-rebecca-connolly/

Advanced Hand Assessment and Management? 🤔

perhaps she uses transgender female to differentiate herself as someone who has undergone full medical transition.

I very much doubt it.

Nasty colonising patriarchal misogynist more like, trying to take all our words.

'Bodies are not inherently male or female. They are just their bodies.'

If that's true, how can someone be in the "wrong body" that needs fixing?

There you go, using logic again. So bigoted!