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Fresh Feminism: Transgender Is An Adjective
Trust me on this.
- Transgender is an adjective. Transgender is not a noun.
- You cannot make transgender a verb by adding ‘ing’. Transgendering is not a real…
Except transgender is both an adjective and a noun. Calling someone ‘a transgender person’ is using it as a noun.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transgender#Noun
(Source: The Huffington Post, via angrytranschick)