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Originally Posted by AtLastHome
Got my Census Question are today.. no place for other-female .... 
And I am having difficulty with TG only representing male/men/masculine because a MtF is a transgendered individual. But, I do get why many of us here that feell other (including other-female or other-male or 3rd-gendered do not use TG because it always seems to get out into the male pile! That I] default [/I]is quite deeply ingrained in our world, isn't it? And goes to sexism and male privilege. This is what drives me crazy as well as just being able to find a non-binary defined term.
This is a huge part of why I find language (English) and the lack of a cross-cultural approach to be so damn restrictive!
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I can see *how* TG *might* "get out into the male pile", but I don't think that's how it's used within the TG community as a whole
While general society *might* see it as a "well, if you're not woman than you're man" type o' deal, I know I personally don't use it that way.
One reason for my not using it that way is because it would automatically exclude femmes who ID as TG
I think in a strictly binary world, TG would probably be used as a "well if you're not woman then you're man" type of thing, but I think just about everyone on this site acknowledges the binary is bullshit.
In my world, TG isn't just about man/woman or male/female...it's about ANYONE who steps out of the binary. Most of the people I talk to who frequent TG conferences, conversations, meet ups, etc feel the same way.
Femme is/can be a gender just as much as butch (or any other gender)...to turn TG into binary excludes shit-tons (that's Dylan-metric) of people from the TG movement, and turns it into a trans-sexed issue. It also asks people to once again conform to binary ideas...which is exactly what many TG people refuse to do in the first place.
Dylan