Is it a female surgically altered, a male surgically altered, a male trapped in a woman's body, a female trapped in a man's body or just someone who is weird and wants to show off. Perhaps it is just someone who wants to get free money from the taxpayers through a lawsuit.
The terminology has become convoluted and confused. The striving for victim status is endemic. The lawyers have found chasing the gender confused and sexually perverted more profitable than chasing ambulances.
ANSWER:
A TRANSGENDER MAN IS NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL!!!!!!!!
JUST QUEER TO ME.
If you follow the picture essay, and pull out your leftist-to-normal decoder ring you will find that this woman is taking male hormones but has not yet mutilated her genetalia. It can be inferred that upon seeing a female, complete with female reproductive organs, in the men’s locker room the staff asked the woman to use the women’s locker room. Rather than realize that normal men may not wish to use the same facilities as a mentally unstable woman, she has sued the city for descriminating against her instead of descriminating against the normal men.
You nailed it, and this is something on which EVERYONE can agree: the terminology needs to be standardized and clarified.
Just as you stated, right now, “transgender man” can mean many different things. (Out of this story’s context, I usually interpret the term to mean a medically male person who identifies as female. Obviously HERE it’s a medical female who identifies as male.)
Whatever one’s views on “transgender rights,” could we at least be clear about what’s what? Or is even saying something like “born male” going to be an OFFENSIVE TRIGGER!?!!
With the statistically insignificant exception of a few chromosomal variants, the vast, vast majority of humans are either XX or XY chromosome. No amount of surgery or drugs can alter that stark fact. Male or female.
The recent Time magazine cover person is not a woman, but an effigy.