Although I suspect most who say it wrong don't do it intentionally.

In fact, if anyone is using a Samsung product with auto correct, it automatically changes to "transgendered. Samsung is homophobic, sexist, bigoted and every other negative thing about minorities. It doesn't even know the word "gay"

Just trying to educate with the little knowledge I have in the subject

And something I have never seen before. I have transgender friends that would be very upset about this.

Thanks for the link

I think, perhaps, it is old language or ignorance. Even one of the links in the blog uses transgender.

I don't mean any disrespect to anyone. But that just isn't the norm for the community.

I will say, it is confusing. Any transgender person that wants to describe themselves that way, it sure is not my place to criticize.

Someone may be a transgender man, woman, or person, but never "a transgender". And it's "trans woman/man", not "transwoman" (yes, the space is important).

This is a good reference guide: http://www.glaad.org/reference/transgender

Great link.

I probably should have done that in the OP. I definitely should have. I will edit.

Thank you

"Italianed American" person. That comparison, I think, clarifies why "transgender" should not be treated as though it is the past participle form a verb, because doing so makes it sound as though somehow the transgender person had something done to him or her to cause a resulting "condition, rather than having been who he or she is all along.

That's a very good explanation.

Nothing was done to anyone who fits those descriptions, either.

Don't get me wrong, I say "transgender" because the one transgender person in my life prefers it. But that particular explanation of why we should makes no sense at all, unless you propose to eliminate ALL such terms when describing someone's inherent traits.

as the examples in #14 are - 'uses their left hand', 'has far sight', 'has a red head' and so on. So the earlier adjective is 'gendered' = 'has a known gender', and some people thought 'if we have the adjective 'gendered', then this adjective would be 'transgendered''. Now, 'has (a) transgender' doesn't make too much sense, so it does make more sense to use 'transgender' as an adjective.

The Oxford English Dictionary points to this (and points out 'transgender' was used in print first):
transgendered, adj. Etymology: < trans- prefix + gendered adj.2 Compare earlier transgender adj.
1974 D. Cordell in Rep. First National TV.TS Conf. 16 There is a tendency among trans-gender people to encourage each other.
1983 K. E. Stuart Uninvited Dilemma viii. 97 A therapist..who specializes in working with transgendered persons.

That's one term that makes me cringe.

I am very confused by Nye's post. Seems this is not the universal thing I thought it was. Or, perhaps, those are old

Thank you!

I had no idea that "transgendered" was offensive but clearly see that one would not want to be referred to as (say) "womaned".

trans gendered.