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@DesasterTristan @ember the word trans may not make those distinctions, but at least it makes the distinction concerning your assigned gender being different from your real one, and I don't think it being imperfect in other ways means we should erase that, which is what the original post was suggesting. Plus, an additional harm that the original post's definitions would commit is that they conflate gender presentation and performance with gender identity, in that they want to count a cis man who starts presenting and acting more masculine as the same as someone who transitions to a more masculine gender identity. Plus it simply doesn't take into account things like, for instance, trans masc femboys — if the words are just meant to refer to performance and presentation then that makes those transmascs "transfem actually" which is FUCKED. UP. :(

I think it's okay to recognize the similarity in the struggles between people who change their presentation and performance in a certain direction and people who transition in that same direction, but I don't think that makes them the same thing, or that we should broaden a term that is usefully used to talk about a specific experience with your gender identity being different from the one you were assigned in order to encompass both. I really don't see what the eagerness is to do that.