It honestly does not bother me at all which people use. If someone s being accepting, then I'm just glad for that, not whether or not they stick a couple of letters that don't need to be there on a word. That said, I prefer "transgender."

I prefer transgender to transgendered because adding the "ed" implies it may be used as a verb. That makes me think something happened to me to make me this way. I'd rather think I just am.

Yeah, transgender is an adjective and not a verb.

It's also more correct because it's a state of being, and not something you do.

Interesting debate

"Transgendered" doesn't bother me, but phrases like "a transgender" with nothing else do.

I preferred "transgender" to "transgendered" because I liked how it sounded long before I knew what others' preferences were. Now if I see someone using the term "transgendered" I generally assume they aren't in touch with the trans* community, since it's pretty well known nowadays (in online communities, anyways) that it really disturbs some trans* people.

I personally never describe myself as transgendered. That would sound like it was something that happened to me in the past, as opposed to a current identity.

I honestly try to just use trans* because I've heard people be offended by both transgender and transgendered, but I prefer the term transgender personally.

Transgendered bugs me but I don't find it offensive per se. If I ask someone not to use it and they ignore me, well, that's a different story.

i don't understand why people are so bothered. the amount of rules and regulations and barriers in this community are getting ridic. you don't say "blond hair boy." it's blond haired. transgender ends in r. it sounds better, in my opinion, to add the ed as numerous other adjectives do (long-legged, open minded, etc) those aren't adverbs. to be fair, -er usually refers to a noun. i'm a runner, i'm a swimmer. so i can understand how those who are defined by trans* status would say i'm a transgender. these words don't generally have nouns after them. i think it's improper to say i'm a transgender man, because i wouldn't say i'm a runner man. i'd say i'm a runner. but for me, it isn't all of who i am. so i go with transgendered. i'm a brown haired, blue eyed, transgendered man.

i hope that clears "proper grammar" up for some of us. at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. but people that get offended need to take a step back and realize that grammatically, they may not be right. when in doubt, just use trans*.

Don't really care e_e personally, one way or the other, grammatically correct or not there's only a minute fraction of english that english speakers use that is legitimately correct anyway... so why nitpick this? People just want, for the most part, an excuse to victimize themselves and jump down someone's throat for w/e reason.

I use trans as well personally for myself and others. It's easier and nobody gets really hung up on it (in my experience). I don't really mind if somebody refers to me as transgender/transgende red, the only thing that kind of bugs me is if people are using the term "transgenders" as in: "I went to the parade and there were a lot of transgenders there." But really as far as I'm concerned if someone is making an effort I'm not going to nit-pick about what terminology they're going to use.

I really don't mind to be honest, i think i normally say "transgender", the word "transgendered" makes me sound like i've got something wrong with me.

I have no preference one way or another. I prefer using trans when describing myself, and I'll usually just say trans when talking about others unless they specify that they prefer some other term.

shouldnt really matter

Doesnt matter to me.