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[–]meranii 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I've totally noticed that as well in German language articles, calling people "Transsexuelle" instead of transgender. It's weird because obviously no one is actually capable of changing their sex and it's considered the wrong/old-fashioned word in English, but in German they're going with that? It really seems TRAs in Germany are skipping the "oh it's just about gender not sex, which everyone knows is a social construct so we can identify that way" step that their English-speaking brethren used to get a foot in the door and going straight to "making any distinction between transwomen and bio women is actually transphobic!".

[–]Camberian[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nah, I believe mainly journalists use the term "transsexual" to hide that nowadays we are talking about totally different types.

[–]RiverSong 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe the acceptance of the word "Transsexuelle" is a remnant from long ago, when we didn't have as many "anglizismen", so the word "gender" was not used here.

The first time I was aware that there are transsexual people was wenn Michelle Mayer was voted Miss Bayreuth in 1991. It was kind of a scandal that a "former" man was voted to be Miss. At that time I first read about all of this in the ... you can guess it ... BILD.