@Skide
"anyone from Dante Tex Gill to Joan of Arcare labeled transgender instead of the true renegades who said “I want to, and the dress code is stupid.”"
Yeah and who are you to tell that these were ALL merely crossdressers and not actual transgender individuals?
It's notable that even to the present day "eggs" use crossdressing as an outlet for the dysphoria they don't know they have. Rogéria is a famous example.
Is it because you consider it a fashion choice born after y2k? Yup, it`s precisely how you sound.
Wanna know the best part? They make sure to omit all the historical figures with ovious dysphoria. Billy Tipton's wife never saw his genitals. His wife and adopted kids had no idea their dad was born Dorothy Tipton. If he were just a crossdressing lesbian like the author of his biography Suits Me claims, he would have no dysphoria about having female anatomy and would have no problem taking the chest-binders and bandages off when with his wife.
Another example: the priestesses of Cybele (called Gallae in Roman texts--unlike the English-speakers translating him, Catullus uses female pronouns) and the hijras of India were intiated by a crude anesthesia-free orchidectomy with a single swing of a sharp knife. The only people who want to cut off their penis as well as their balls are trans women with dysphoria. Rabun Taylor's "Two Pathic Subcultures In Ancient Rome," unaware that dysphoria even exists, claims that the Gallae were just crossdressing gay men who feminized their bodies to get more dick (at least in Blanchard's dichotomy, that makes them the Good kind of transgender instead of the "autogynephilic" Bad kind). Never mind that Ovid's Ars Amatoria (on the limits of male grooming: "...leave the rest to the *cinaedi* and the Cybelians")--and even St. Augustine's polemic The City of God Against the Pagans, which calls the Gallae "castrated perverts"--group them in their own separate category from gay/bisexual men (cinaedi) who modify themselves to look more effeminate.
What I hate about the word "transgender" replacing "transsexual" is that "transgender" is subject to equivocation between the DSM-V Gender Dysphoria definition (people with bona-fide dysphoria who want HRT regardless of whether they want SRS) and the old Virginia Prince "every non-dysphoric motherfucker with variant gender presentation" definition. This wasn't the case with "transsexual."
It's bullshit that things should be this way in English because other languages like Brazilian Portuguese don't have this umbrella-grouping problem. In the Portuguese used in the travesti documentary Boys From Brazil, if you want SRS and feel like a woman trapped in a man's body (or vice versa), you're a transsexual; if you have hormones and body modification but like your penis and don't feel 100% like a woman, you're a travesti; mere crossdressers and drag queens like Peter Oiler are travestidos or transformistas and are never grouped in as transgénero, unlike in American media where "transgender" was applied to drag queens in a 1993 article and Peter Oiler in news reports about him getting fired from Winn-Dixie, after decades of stellar service, for doing drag on his off days.
Brazil doesn't have the problem Anglo countries have of dysphoria-free HRT-free lolcows like Stefoknee Wolscht, Travis Alabanza and Alok claiming to be transgender because "I have variant presentation and that's the old definition [homophobic and transphobic crossdresser] Virginia Prince used when coining the term 'transgender.'" You can bet your bottom dollar TERFs, Bible-thumpers and North Carolina legislators point to violent lolcows like Wolscht and Cherno Biko when trying to stir up public paranoia about women's restrooms, just as surely as Anita Bryant's Save Our Children and other anti-gay groups pointed to NAMBLA's presence at Pride parades as proof "gays don't reproduce, they recruit! Gays are pedophiles who want to molest your kids! Being molested by a man turns boys gay!" NAMBLA ensured the US age of consent wouldn't be lowered to what it is in countries like the Phillipines that recognize teenagers have consensual sex (as a result, the author of Two-Spirit book The Spirit And The Flesh is in jail for something travestis do routinely with boyzhinos in Brazilian slums: paying a 16-year-old guy to fuck him) and transtrender lolcows ensure normal trans women get a raw deal--if there's one thing stopping more informed-consent HRT clinics from existing, it's non-dysphoric Tumblr users like "Milo" Stewart taking HRT. Transtrenders are giving machine-gun-belt levels of free ammunition to people like the Clarke Institute, TERFs, and every other gatekeeper who wants to make HRT take a long time to get so trans women look male and can't pass without facial feminization surgery, which is a lot more expensive than taking estrogen at 16. I can't help but conclude that whatever bad connotations "transsexual" may have had back when "homosexual" was commonly used (and therefore "transgender" sounded like a sexually-motivated sexual orientation when it is nothing of the sort), "transgender" is now worse.