Is that post even transphobic. Was "tranny" widely known as a deogratory term in 2009. I see articles from 2010 and up that it shouldn't be used anymore. Just curious because trantastic sounds very positive.
Yes, but it's complicated. Tranny was in use as a term of endearment like "faggot" or "nigga" up until around the mid-2010s. I'm guessing Teigen was around a lot of queer people that used that word.
All of these tweets are 2010 Perez Hilton level stuff that are being viewed through a 2018 lens. In 2010, RuPaul's Drag Race had a segment called "You've Got Shemail." There was a monthly drag performance event in San Francisco called the Trannyshack. Etc. This is all very new.
Remember that the T word would refer to male sex workers that presented themselves as women. It was word thrown around by and at drag queens, gay men, trans women, the works. It was a word absorbed by some facets of the community as a badge of honor.
We have come to accept now as a collective that it is a word that has a dark history that shouldn't be held to the light. But that's taken us a while.
Essentially, all celebrities should delete their accounts in 2018 and start fresh in 2019.
