LeaP, you are calling me out for semantic confusion? I am not quite sure how you get this from what I have posted here. I do not believe I have in any way attempted any re definitions. I do have opinions, that may not always be agreed upon. Anyone who identifies as TS can only self identify. THEY feel internally they are a woman, and no one can ever really argue that. Back to the OP of the what is a transitioner.... I would think that it is a description of someone in the process, present tense. Until such time they have completed transition. I really do not understand how there can be any semantic confusion there.
I do sometimes see a post in here where someone will say they have transitioned and now awaiting SRS. IMO- they are still in the process. They have completed all steps but one, which is the physical alignment, to actually be a woman physically. IMO- that is a big one. To me, anyone in the process can say they are or have partially transitioned. Sooo, they can also say they are a partial transitoner, present tense anyway. It is just my opinion, it is how I see it, which may make it wrong for some, but that doesn't make it wrong for me. What I do not do, is try to make my opinion be put on anyone else. I do not declare what anyone else is, or was or will be.
My opinion- is that there are dual gendered people, non binary to either gender, and they can be both genders internally. A TS person in the process, not out at work or in whatever social circles- yet, but it is a process, they are internally female at all times. Still, they lead a life of both, regardless of how they feel internally. A CDer who identifies as dual gender.... lives their life as both. They also identify as both. A part of them is female, a part of them is male. For many who fit in this category, those parts do not completely shut off depending on what they are doing or how they are presenting. In a sense, they are internally feeling and identifying opposite of what they are physically. It does not take anything away from someone who is internally binary the opposite of their birth gender.
