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Kali

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44. I prefer no title

Mon Dec 28, 2020, 08:28 PM

Dec 2020

it is irritating when forms won't allow the option of NO option. None of most people's (or companies'/organizations') business.

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Just learned a new term I've never heard of before, anywhere. [View all] Archae Dec 2020 OP

i learned 'transpecies' the other day!..life is getting way too complicated... samnsara Dec 2020 #1

Where do I apply? Hugin Dec 2020 #5

There seems to be an obsession PatSeg Dec 2020 #36

It's another word for being furry I_UndergroundPanther Dec 2020 #41

I don't think it is crazy PatSeg Dec 2020 #55

The tag is for self identification I_UndergroundPanther Dec 2020 #42

The problem with labels PatSeg Dec 2020 #54

I know I am far more complex than any label..The labels are kind of a shorthand way of putting I_UndergroundPanther Dec 2020 #66

Is that from the South Park episode where Kyle's dad gets changed into a dolphin? Towlie Dec 2020 #45

Who are we to question those for whom this term applies? Cirque du So-What Dec 2020 #2

I can't keep up. Be whatever you are, let me know when you meet me and we'll go with that. Squinch Dec 2020 #3

Agreed. Miigwech Dec 2020 #7

Why does it bother you so much? RandiFan1290 Dec 2020 #4

It doesn't, I just never heard of it before. Archae Dec 2020 #6

From the article, couple for you.. irisblue Dec 2020 #11

Post removed Post removed Dec 2020 #13

2014 academic citation and abstract irisblue Dec 2020 #15

I'll be darned, it has been used before. Archae Dec 2020 #17

you wrote "Who the heck made this term up?" Voltaire2 Dec 2020 #30

As long as people like my nephew use it to describe their gender identity I doubt Autumn Dec 2020 #40

While, I had not heard the term before, it makes a kind of sense. Eugene Dec 2020 #8

Agreed sweetloukillbot Dec 2020 #37

"Who the heck made this term up?" Probably someone who needed it. WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2020 #9

Dictionary.com has a definition. After a short search found a 2014 citation and abstract irisblue Dec 2020 #12

Yes, I know what it means. It's good to have words that describe what people know about themselves. WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2020 #14

I know you got it, but I thought it should be in this thread irisblue Dec 2020 #16

Fair enough! WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2020 #25

Only issue is, unlike "transwomen", "transmasculine" is an adjective, not whathehell Dec 2020 #56

Transfeminine as a word also exists. irisblue Dec 2020 #57

I never said either of them weren't "words".. whathehell Dec 2020 #59

Truly then, I am not understanding your post to me irisblue Dec 2020 #60

Okay whathehell Dec 2020 #62

I have a grandchild who is transsexual, born a biological male but identifying as female. CTyankee Dec 2020 #10

It has always been my thought MuseRider Dec 2020 #18

I do like when words allow expansion of consider_this Dec 2020 #19

Ms has been in use for decades for women csziggy Dec 2020 #21

your efforts underscore my point consider_this Dec 2020 #22

Most online forms have various forms of address csziggy Dec 2020 #27

I prefer no title Kali Dec 2020 #44

I use MS for online forms but not in daily life csziggy Dec 2020 #46

oh yeah that whole head-of-household BS Kali Dec 2020 #47

Same here, but the advice we got it was not worth arguing with the IRS csziggy Dec 2020 #48

oh yeah we get that all the time Kali Dec 2020 #49

I'm surprised you haven't heard it before fishwax Dec 2020 #20

Oooo, right up there with Latinx Drahthaardogs Dec 2020 #23

I never heard of that one either. Archae Dec 2020 #24

Non-gendered term that replaces Latino/Latina nt sweetloukillbot Dec 2020 #26

this op and many comments are just screaming 'boomer fail'. Voltaire2 Dec 2020 #31

As a speaker of Italian, which also has masculine and feminine Drahthaardogs Dec 2020 #33

Despised by most latino people I know. Squinch Dec 2020 #38

It is divisive sweetloukillbot Dec 2020 #39

I live in Arizona JonLP24 Dec 2020 #43

+1 Lady Freedom Returns Dec 2020 #52

Being older, I don't see the advantage of it. Maybe I'll just have some tequilx, ... JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2020 #61

Lolz Drahthaardogs Dec 2020 #65

I can't figure that one out..LOL LeftInTX Dec 2020 #63

It's stupid Drahthaardogs Dec 2020 #64

People it describes. Ms. Toad Dec 2020 #28

probably people who were born female and transitioned to male? Voltaire2 Dec 2020 #29

We should care what terminology transpeople use sweetloukillbot Dec 2020 #32

oh sure, I meant why the upset? Voltaire2 Dec 2020 #34

Fair enough nt sweetloukillbot Dec 2020 #35

Language is fluid mucifer Dec 2020 #50

Why can't people just be people. Growing up in Roxbury MA, we never identified a person marie999 Dec 2020 #51

All words are made up. 🤷🏼‍♀️ nolabear Dec 2020 #53

"Pan-sexual" from Schitt Creek. kentuck Dec 2020 #58