[GoneGirl]

The N-word is in the dictionary. Do you use that word too? Do you use it even if your audience finds it offensive? No? Then why keep using words that I'm telling you are offensive to many transgender people? I don't call male-identifying cross-dressers 'transvestites', or men who want breasts 'fetishists'. Those words are in Webster's, too.

A LOT of people do! A LOT of them are black!! But, at least that is derived from a place in Africa, Nigeria. Nigerians were brought here and we bastardized the name to "nigger" and made a racial slur out of it. I'm sure "niggardly" is also in the dictionary.

Why wouldn't you? That IS what a cross-dresser is!
Maybe it IS a KIND of fetish to just want tits, but, fetishes USUALLY have to do with sexual preferences...anal sex, foot worshipping during sex, leather, spikes and studs worn during sex, a guy that can ONLY get off wearing women's clothes, people that can't get off without LOADS of abuse, a guy that keeps a slice of cheese in his underwear.

Yes, I could use those words, but I don't because I know that many of the people that those words refer to are offended by them. To use words like that, which you know are offensive to people, is a slap in the face. Words like 'tranny', 'shemale', 'T-girl', etc. are used to invalidate me as a person. Even being referred to as a 'trans woman' when it serves no purpose in the conversation is hurtful. Unless my having transitioned is relevant to matter at hand, I'm simply a 'woman'.