It’s largely linguistic in reasoning!
The -ed removes agency and passivizes the modified subject. That morpheme suggests that the subject is operated upon, transgender-ed, by something (presumably society), and is thus altered from an…
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I know how institutional prejudice works. You don’t, and on this front, you haven’t experienced it because that’s the...
that’s a super good alternative! and yeah. i think...throw at academics and media editors?...
Even still, “transgendered” implies something was done to them, that they changed from a state of non-transgender to...
I might be misunderstanding this, but I’d always thought gender identity wasn’t a choice or a matter of agency? I’d...