Is there a dominant narrative as to the root of being transgender anymore?

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[–]BiHorror 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

From what I seen, it's mainly either the "brain scans" or the "I feel like x, therefore I'm x despite being y." As for the terminology for transsexuals vs transgenders, from i read, one of the issues was becuase it had "sexual" at the end of it. Those who had a problem with that was becuase "sexual" is associated with sexuality according to term. The term "transgender" was used by a trans identified male actor who was a TRA, so that could've also been what popularized it as well.

[–]SeasideLimbs[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I had a similar experience as well. I saw people argue that the change from -sexual to -gender was because "sexual" was an ambiguous term that could either refer to sex (the activity) or sex as in gender. So to avoid confusion and especially to stop trans people (trans women in particular) from being associated with shemale porn (which back then was arguably the type of media where trans people were the most visible and which painted trans-women as hypersexual beings - ironically true in hindsight) people wanted to switch to trans-gender. The entire gender=culture idea really only came afterwards, and at that point people suddenly pretended like that was the reason for the change in terminology. Another case of the trans community engaging in revisionist history.