The ‘T’ Word

huffingtonpost.com – Jennifer Finney Boylan – Author, ‘She’s Not There,’ ‘I’m Looking Through You’ and ‘Stuck in the Middle With You’

Hey, can we have a conversation about the word “tranny”?

It’s a word that is generally considered dehumanizing and offensive when referring to transgender people, like the “N” word for a person of color, or the “F” word for a gay man. But there it was in headlines last week in the story about DJ Mister Cee, who’d been outed as having had sex with a transgender prostitute…