It’s apparently supposed to make a distinction between trans people before/after bottom surgery. I doubt that’s a common use for that word, but I still have a few points against that specifically:
- I don’t think it’s ok to make a distinction those in this way
- It straight up ignores that not everyone wants bottom surgery
- It’s not even the way ‘-sexual’ is used normally.
Most people just use it interchangeably with transgender to my knowledge.
If I hadn’t heard of it in context it’s commonly used in, I would think that it’s the attraction to trans people.
Idk if I’m making any sense here, I suck at saying/writing things that do
I dislike it because when I used it to come out to friends they thought I was gay. I can’t blame them for thinking it was a sexual orientation, so I decided the term is dysfunctional and shouldnt be used. Though it doesn’t help that in my native language Turkish the word for transexual (transeksüel) is in use while the translation of transgender (transcinsiyet?) isn’t. So now I just use trans and hope that triggers the right neurons in people.
Also transexual feels very much like a medical term, or at least that’s the context I’ve come across it the most.