[Allen-Adams]

First of all, transgendered people do not consider their presenting gender merely ’emotional’, just for clarification. Most of us consider ourselves all male or all female, (and many feel more comfortable with that concept after hormone replacement therapy) despite the body we were born with. It wouldn’t be natural for us to suddenly change the overall view of ourselves after we had sex reassignment surgery. A small percentage of us are non-operative, for that matter. It’s a hard concept for non-trans people to grasp, but it’s how it is. As for your question, it is offensive to refer to a TG person as their ‘biological sex’ because their presenting gender is opposite of that. The proper thing to do is address them as their presenting gender and use the corresponding pronouns, which means the gender they identify with (you described it as emotional). Besides, if you don’t, you may get some pretty confused stares from people and/or from the person him/herself. I hope this helps and wasn’t too confusing. It’s a tough thing to explain.

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Name : Allen-Adams, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, City : Dallas, State : TX, Country : United States, 

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