As to your first point, neither have I, in real life. I know and have worked with 5 Transwomen. One is a neighbor and we’re quite friendly. All of them refer to themselves as Trans or Transwomen. They don’t even refer to themselves as women unless someone is asking in an awkward manner and confused over whether they are Transsexual or transgender. Then they’ll say “I’m a woman!” It’s actually kind of cute funny.
So anyway, all this rhetoric I’m seeing online directly contradicts my lived experience and, quite frankly, makes me suspicious as I’ve discussed in other comment threads. At least a few natal women, especially those of us with actual real life Transwomen in our lives, are questioning whether or not all this propaganda and discussion is coming from actual Transwomen. It seems somewhat off. We’ve wondered whether some or a lot of this isn’t actually coming from bots and/or paid trolls as part of an extra national campaign to sow discord and division in the US and other western countries.
As to your second point, you’re wrong and what you said doesn’t even make logical sense. I’m going to assume you got turned around in that somehow and leave it at that.
Transsexual as a term was coined by a German sexologist and LGBT pioneer names Magnus Hirschfeld. He was a gay man himself, so the term did not originate as an act of bigotry when coined sometime in the early 1900s.
The specific term Transwoman is attributed and associated to 1970s trans activist and pioneer Virginia Prince who’s work and writing began separating Transsexual identity (those who physically change their sex through surgery and hormones) with Transgender identity (those whose gender expression is the opposite of their biological sex). At least, that was her take.
Obviously, there’s still some debate, disagreement, confusion, and fluidity in the terms but neither Transgender nor Transwoman (gonna add Transmen in here too, though I didn’t specifically research it) were coined as an act of bigotry. They were coined by activists promoting education, awareness, and advocating for acceptance and legal recognition/rights.
Your view on the term’s genesis is propaganda and disinformation at best, or your own bigotry and bias coming out at worst. Probably somewhere in between because that was super easy to verify.
