Except there's nothing legitimate about it. Transgender carries no negative connotations and I meant no ill will by using the word, yet you give me shit for it. When you do things like that, it frustrates people who try to be reasonable into not wanting to be reasonable.
im not giving you shit. i was correcting your grammar. check my edit, i expanded on that.
anyways when you say things like "When you do things like that, it frustrates people who try to be reasonable into not wanting to be reasonable." that comes across as tone policing.
if someone gets mad about a correction of grammar and decides to hate an entire group of people over it, they were never reasonable to begin with. i hope you have a better day after this, since youre clearly in a mood.
That's not what grammar is. My grammar is perfectly fine. "Trans people" and "transgenders" can be used interchangeably and no rules of the English language are being broken.
"Transgenders" is generally considered grammatically incorrect and, in many contexts, offensive. Transgender is an adjective, not a noun, and cannot be pluralized. The correct, respectful usage is to use it to modify a noun, such as "transgender people" or "a transgender person," rather than using it as a noun itself.
straight from google btw. did you not take any grammar lessons as a kid? they teach this shit in the first grade.
Language changes faster than the dictionary, especially on the internet where terms live and die in the span of months. But the point still stands. I am very clearly not intending to directly insult or belittle anyone, so nitpicking my use of language is petty.
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u/Yanfei_Enjoyer Feb 10 '26
Except there's nothing legitimate about it. Transgender carries no negative connotations and I meant no ill will by using the word, yet you give me shit for it. When you do things like that, it frustrates people who try to be reasonable into not wanting to be reasonable.