Jo

The usual definition for 'transgender' is something along the lines of: having a gender identity that does not match the sex you were assigned at birth. This is what the real Webster's says, what my Sexuality and the Law professors said, and what you'll see on the Interweb and in Gender Studies classes. Problem: this is not a very useful definition. See, a huge percentage of Americans say that they have no real gender identity; if they were a member of the opposite sex, they might have complaints at being catcalled on the street or not being allowed to cry, but they would have no identity problems or specific dysphoria. If you described all of those guys as "transgender", people would look at you like you were crazy. Someone who lives and presents as their asab, who if you ask will say "Oh yeah, sure, I'm a man/woman", who has never had any desire to be any other sex ever? They fit the technical definition of 'transgender', but they don't match how actual human beings ever use the word. As such, I propose a new definition of 'transgender': having a gender identity that does not match the sex you were assigned at birth and you actually, like, care about it. I believe this definition is much more perfectly in line with how people use the word and with the concept to which modern usage of the word points.