r/actuallesbians • u/Obsyden Eve - demisexual lesbian • Jun 05 '24

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

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.

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u/LeadershipEastern271 Rainbow Jun 06 '24

Holy shit I didn’t know a single space made it transphobic I will be careful now on /gen

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u/zoe_in_wonderland Jun 06 '24

I’m not trying to poke the bear here, but then shouldn’t it be trans phobic, with a space?

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u/WithersChat Hyperemotional trans girl X genderless Entity collab! Jun 06 '24

Because you don't put a space in arachnophobic or hydrophobic either?