

The words in question are "transwomen" vs "trans woman" and "transfolk" versus "trans folk." As far as I am aware, there are people on both sides of the aisle who use one and the other.



For disclosure, the impetus to this was my comment about Stephen Fry in that thread which was deleted - I had used the term "transwoman" but also included a caveat, since there'd been some discussion upthread, that I wasn't using it to be a dick, but it's the usage that's common with my (trans) friends. To save about twenty comments, yes, I am perfectly willing for it to be replicated in thread by mods if anyone so desires, but I don't have it myself because I don't save my comments.

Everyone here is pretty big on some of the serious words not to use, but I think there has been some serious creep: when entire comments are being deleted because of the lack of a space between two words , which is not only far from being universal, but far from being common even in social justice spaces, I think there's a problem. It's one thing to delete comments for offensive words, but another thing entirely to delete them for offensive spacing.