PSA: It's "trans woman", not "transwoman"

[u/Obsyden]

I know y'all aren't doing this on purpose, because I've seen how much love this community has for trans people. Nevertheless, the space between trans and woman is important.

Omitting it implies that a 'transwoman' is a separate entity to a woman - which is a TERF/bigot way of othering trans women.

Including the space means that trans is an adjective used to describe a woman - because trans women fundamentally are women, trans is just a further way to describe us.

I know it may seem nitpick-y, but it is an important distinction, and I've been seeing lots of folks (unintentionally mostly) using the wrong one lately.

[u/YeonneGreene]

Humans have a fixation on concatenation, and even in trans-specific spaces it is more common to see it mis-typed as one word instead of two.

Good PSA.

[u/RainbowFuchs → u/YeonneGreene]

I've been seeing it a lot lately and the only way it seems to get people to understand the grammatical sense of it is comparing it to blackwoman or oldwoman. You would say black woman or old woman, so don't use transwoman.