Pride Month post #3

[aadler]

Some several years ago, listening to something in media, my wife expressed puzzlement and frustration: “When someone talks about a ‘trans woman’,” she complained, “I never know if they mean a woman who says she’s actually a man, or a man who says he’s actually a woman.”

“I used to have the same problem,” I told her. “And even when I worked it out, I kept forgetting and then having to do the same thing all over again the next time. Then I finally came up with a way to keep it straight in my mind:

“Whenever you hear ‘trans’, just think ‘fake’. So a trans woman is a fake woman: i.e., someone who isn’t actually a woman, but insists they are.”

Still works, too.