Trans men are not the same as men. Trans women are not the same as women. Men were not born as women, whereas trans men were. These are not mean spirited things to say. They are facts. Trans men were born as women and they present as men. If they want me to refer to them as men, I happily will. No problem. But that doesn’t change the fact that trans men are not exactly the same as natural born men. Buck Angel, a trans man, explains:
Transgender Nomenclature
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:June 24, 2021
- Post category:Language / Transgender
- Post comments:1 Comment
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
If you call a woman a man, you are lying. This is not a mean spirited thing to say. It is common sense.