Not even if we really want to?
But if we can’t call a woman rude names how will we spend our time?
I’ll tell you what’s not fair! It’s not fair to tell people who like calling women rude names that it’s not fair to call women rude names! That’s what’s not fair!
It’s fair to call people transphobic bigots if they identify as transphobic bigots!
I prefer the term “transskeptical” myself. Bigotry involves hatred. Phobia implies fear. I don’t hate them, I find their arguments ridiculous and annoying. I am not afraid of them. I more feel sorry for them. Except when they use political or cultural power to enforce orthodoxy. Like I posted on another site: We dismiss the ravings of fundamentalist American “prophets” that Gawd told them that Trump actually won the election because these rants are utterly inconsistent with reality! Similarly, I don’t have to believe or “respect” the arguments of a 30 year old cyclist with muscular legs that “he” legitimately can race in women’s events. Even if I have nothing to lose or gain by the belief. It is just…annoying.
Now you’ve got me thinking, Brian. That’s always dangerous.
How about “transatheist?”
Now I’m getting confused about what’s modifying what. “In transgender” and “transracial”, the base word is “gender” or “racial”, and the “trans” is a modifier. In “transphobia”, the base word is “trans”, presumed to mean “transgender”, and “phobia” compounded on. In “transskeptic” and “transatheist”, my first (incorrect) thought was that this was some new kind of “skeptic/atheist” (“trans” as modifier), not “skeptical/atheistic” about “transgenderism” (“trans” as referring to “transgender”). I suppose “transphobic” could also be interpreted that way; some new “opposite” way of being phobic.
As for the OP, I’m glad to see Pink News get some official pushback. They aren’t going to notice the skulls on their helmets, though.
transatheist would imply a belief that there is no sex…let alone gender. But I still like it!
Given that I am riding out the aftereffects (blurry vagueness and tiredness) of my second Moderna shot, your post made my head hurt. Sackbut! :) :)
Although I think the usage has evolved so that “trans” is BOTH an adjective and somehow a noun. So, transkeptical would mean skeptical about trans status, with trans being the modifier of the “trans status” as a noun???
oops. trans is the noun being modified by the skeptical adjective? I give up. I think I am going to take a nap.
Sackbut, I was proposing that the base word be trans, as a noun. Atheist would be the modifier. In that sense, it is a counterpart of transphobic, in which trans is the base and phobic the modifier.
I don’t know if atheist can be used in that sense, of not believing in a specific religion.
I remember that I used to argue to religious people that they were all also atheists as regarded all the other religions in the world but theirs, so we were more alike than different. I was just atheist for one more. Very Dale Carnegie: you don’t believe in Hanuman? Hey, I don’t believe in Hanuman either! How about Valhalla? Me neither!
So I’m an atheist for the trans religion too.