this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2024
458 points (93.4% liked)
Technology
59377 readers
2957 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Transition can refer to different aspects like your appearance or how you present socially. So transition is still the right term.
That's why the prefix "trans-" exists, not just for transgender people, but for other things like transportation, transposition, transition, transformation, Transjordan (sorry, I just HAD to make that joke), it simply means "the other side".
That emphasized my point. If someone feels that they had always been a certain way in the past even though they didn't look it or act it in public, there is no "other side" of themselves. I'm not trying to change the vocabulary, just was an observation of using a word past its usual meaning. That's how words evolve.
There can still be another side, like I said, just in another aspect. Their gender identity might have been the same througout but their presentation would've probably changed with time. Thus a transition.
Exactly.