Do you use the asterisk?

Contributor: Happenstance Happenstance
I use the asterisk for trans*, yes.
12/15/2012
Contributor: needapacker needapacker
I don't use it. I'm with thomas90 on that one.
I don't really care if others use it, but its a bit annoying when people use it incorrectly (for their own damn definition). Like when they say trans*man or trans*woman. The star is supposedly there to include other identities, so if youre a trans man youre not also genderqueer, agender, bigender, etc.
12/16/2012
Contributor: hanjonatan hanjonatan
nope. i don't subscribe to the giant big umbrella definition, i'm with thomas90 and needapacker on this.
12/25/2012
Contributor: novanilla novanilla
I use it. I think it's more inclusive. Trans* people I know also like it, and I think their opinion matters more than cis people's considering they are trans*.
12/26/2012
Contributor: fizzygato fizzygato
I use the asterisk but when I think critically about the issue I'm more like "eh, idk."

I use the asterisk like I would on google/when searching, meaning "anything can come after." So like, trans* then anything next

I kind of don't like how trans* tries to swallow everything, though, like those who cross-dress, are intersex (at times), etc. I don't like the argument, "We're a small community as it is. We need to bulk up our numbers by finding a lump label." No! Some of these groups don't want to be included and even say so, like they're like, "I'm not trans*. I just cross dress." So let them be!

Idk.. I'm ambivalent at best toward the asterisk.

There are so many self-determined identity labels for a reason--- otherwise they themself might just call themself trans*
12/26/2012
Contributor: hanjonatan hanjonatan
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Originally posted by novanilla
I use it. I think it's more inclusive. Trans* people I know also like it, and I think their opinion matters more than cis people's considering they are trans*.
if you really think trans people's opinions matter more, why are you giving yours at all, assuming you're cis? many trans people don't like the asterisk.

don't get me wrong, it's great that you're trying to be respectful of your friends' wishes, but... maybe take a leaf out of your own book?

i'd also like to say that i really wish we'd stop this thing of using the word "inclusive" like everything is automatically better the more "inclusive" it is. some things aren't meant to be for everyone. "trans" has a meaning. the meaning isn't "everyone who in some way doesn't necessarily conform to every aspect of the norm of their assigned sex".
12/26/2012
Contributor: Mediumsizedman Mediumsizedman
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Originally posted by hanjonatan
if you really think trans people's opinions matter more, why are you giving yours at all, assuming you're cis? many trans people don't like the asterisk.

don't get me wrong, it's great that you're trying to be ... more
Thank you about the word "trans" having a meaning.
01/02/2013
Contributor: Strider Strider
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Originally posted by Thomas90
I'd see them as transgender too, because although they themselves identify as gender neutral, they desire to be a different sex to the one they were biologically born with... so that's trans, right?

I agree that the trans unbrella is ... more
You do know that you don't have to identify as strictly Male or Female (or agender for that matter) to have crippling gender related dysphoria.
01/30/2013
Contributor: LoganAshlee. LoganAshlee.
I don't think that there should be an asterisk to make people feel included. I think a trans person is anyone but cis.
01/30/2013
Contributor: pestilence pestilence
i use it whenever i'm not specifically talking about binary trans people, which happens every once in awhile.
02/01/2013