The use of the word "tranny" probably needs a short explanation. From the point of view of many people affected, this term is filled with negative prejudices, so some prefer the term transvestite or sometimes crossdresser.
I like to use the term myself and have no problems with it when someone calls me that. I use it without any ill intention in general, as a generic term for people who have the same passion as I do and only want to portray a woman visually at times. For me, this term is simply not in a negative context. I definitely do not mean transsexuals when I talk about trannies, and they do not fall under this name for me. In fact, I would find that very disrespectful, because that's a completely different topic.
Yes, there are people who use the term "tranny" in a pejorative context to hurt us and to express their disapproval. However, most people probably do not use this term with malicious intent. Among us transvestites, I have often experienced the word "tranny" as a self-designation. I call myself, even if the word polarized, quite offensively so. On the other hand, I find "transvestite" terrible for a reason that I can not describe in more detail. Maybe that's just a matter of taste.
Someone who is not close to me and who means nothing to me can not really offend me anyway. I can live with the fact that there are also differently thinking people who do not like me and reject my lifestyle. But of course I get annoyed when I have to experience that the term "tranny" is misused to hurt and insult another person. Every time I get annoyed when I have to experience how disrespectful some people are to others and with what stupid self-evidentness they trample on the (human) dignity of others. It makes me sick and I could go up the walls when I experience that parents do not educate their descendants to decent people.
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