you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]el-sol-duerme 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The asterisk is actually a wildcard adopted by the trans community in the early 2000s (at least I saw several friends use them to self-identify as trans) to signify all members of the trans community and their identities. Essentially it's an "inclusive" marker to not only trans individuals, but the non-binary spectrum. The issue is that, apparently, the asterisk wildcard is actually "transphobic" today. https://transstudent.org/issues/asterisk/ and https://lgbtqexperiment.com/2019/02/18/is-there-a-difference-between-trans-and-trans-is-trans-offensive/