• Swiggles@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I mean transfem and transmasc are common terms in trans communities. I assume it has nothing to do with trans people but a human female is called a woman hence calling women female is frowned upon. You call a female animal a female, but not a human usually.

    There is some nuance in there I probably don’t fully understand either as a non native speaker.

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      1 year ago

      I guess you have a point, but banning for that seems like a pretty big overreaction. Especially when the person who posted it also could have been a non-native speaker.

      • Swiggles@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        Yea, unless used degoratory I don’t think it is a big deal either. It is probably a cultural thing and I respect it.

        Thinking more about it it would also be weird to call a woman female in my native tongue and could also only be used in a degoratory manner. We also have some older words which would be even worse.

        No, I think I get it after putting some more thought into it.