As an aside, in a hugely positive development, Michael Foran appears to have reformed his previous approach of using the prescribed language ‘transwomen’ etc and is now using the far clearer ‘transvestite’ to describe the men clamouring to use women’s spaces and rejecting all reasonable accommodations.
I think we should all be doing this. The words 'transgender' or just 'trans' were pushed by the trans lobby in order to make it more palatable to the general public than the obviously sexualised terms transvestite and transsexual and also to blur the boundaries between the two groups.
This post (and the whole thread) are informative.
Let's go back to 2007 | Mumsnet
I tend to use the term transsexual when talking about children who are trans-identifying. If anyone talking about 'trans children' complains about this and says that the children are 'transgender' not 'transsexual', they are welcome to explain what the difference is.
Most men who claim to be trans are, as Michael Foran says, simply transvestites.