No Ms Kershew

Ms Kershew, after listening to your rant in your video, found here, you don't understand why people don't identify as transgender when you want to label them transgender. It's not that people transition or have transitioned have gender issues or insecurities as you seem to assume they do because they hate the word transgender and more so applied to them, it for a simple reason you don't seem to grasp.

The word transgender is elective to the person, like yourself who you call yourself a transgender woman, and not to people who identify as a man or woman regardless of their body or sex. That's their right, and it's not your right to say differently.

Your assumption and accusation that people who don't want to identify as transgender have insecurities is wrong. These people are secure with themselves and with their gender identity, it just doesn't include the label transgender. They can and do refuse it because it's who they are, just men or women.

And that's not your right to say otherwise and it's especially not your right to say they have a mental or personal problem. You don't know them, don't know their life, and don't know how they feel about or see themselves. You don't get to tell them.

I realize as you state in the video, you've talked to quite a few "transpeople" and found many don't use the term to identify themselves, but that doesn't make you more knowledgeable than just those discussions, so don't assume more than you have learned.

Many, and many would say most, people who have transitioned don't have anything to do with the transcommunity or with the word transgender. You may not fully realize the realities of that word to many people if they were outed or came out because of circumstances or choice.

It's why those many, or most, transition and get on with their lives without ever engaging in the word transgender. It's common today as people transition with the array of medical and legal professionals to transition without every being identified as transgender other than for medical or legal necessity, if at all.

That's because today you don't have to identify as transgender to qualify to transition. You just identify as who you are in whatever body and sex you were born and identify what sex and gender you want to be and live the rest of your life. The word transgender doesn't and never applies.

And that's why you seem to fail to realize let alone understand, the word transgender is elective and not punitive or indicative of anything about the person if they choose not to use it for themselves. It's their right and no one, least of all you, can say otherwise.

And by the way, all the post-transition men and women who didn't and don't identify as transgender are all perfectly normal and happy people about themselves. Yes, they're still the same person in many respects after as before their transition, and that's the point, they're not insecure.

They're just normal people free of that stupid little adjective.