With some migrations underway it’s natural to use well established community names for discoverability, but it got me thinking how I’ve always disliked MtF as a community name since it feels dated and “medicalizing”.
Not trying to start anything here, just wondering out loud if a “Transfem” community would cater to the same needs but with less emphasis on where you supposedly came from and more focused on what we want.
transfem is kind of a more broad term than MtF since not everyone transitions to female, transfem is more inclusive for non-binary people as I kind of see it as a step down from transwomen if you imagine it on a gender spectrum, it’s less specific. But I guess all of these terms suffer from having a past association of being different from how you are now, when in reality, I’ve always been like this.
Yeah, this is the problem in that the definitions vary between “inclusive of trans women and NB” to “NB leaning on fem” and all the way to “any trans identity that wants to include feminity”. In the end though it might not matter since more inclusive is better and CWs are encouraged anyway for touchy topics.