Comment on Anon is straight

• fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It might be in this case, but I would not object for a trans man to call themselves femboy if they look like a feminine boy, since for all that matters to me a trans man is a man.

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  • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You may not object but that’s not how the word is commonly used. Anyone can call themselves anything, but for words to have any meaning we need to have a gentleman’s agreement about when and how to use them, which is basically what a language is.

    Anyway, I’m just explaiming the word’s conventional meaning. I have no interest in arguing with you as if I were some kind of linguistic prescriptivist.

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