[WantAPair]

"Transgender" sounds to me like it's describing someone that is in the process of having a sex change, whereas "transgendered" sounds like it's already been done. It's more of a past-tense or plural form of the word. All I'm saying is that the correct usage of English simply dictates that you'd say, "Those people over there are transgendered." But you wouldn't say, "Those people over there are transgender." But, "Chaz Bono is a transgender." would be correct, but you COULD also say, "Chaz Bono is transgendered.", because it's past-tense. It just sounds funny (odd) to drop the "ed", kinda like someone saying, "I don't got any."

As for the word being used for everything across the board, Annie Lennox and Laurie Anderson are androgynous, they tend to dress and look like men (with make-up), but they are not transgendered. (See? It just sounds dumb to say, "they are not transgender" or "they are not a transgender".) As far as I know, they're not even gay! I know Laurie isn't. She used to date/live with Lou Reed. I'm not sure who Annie goes after, if anyone.