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~~transpeople~~ is dehumanizing rule
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Trans- and cis- are prefixes, so I can understand how it feels intuitive to people to say "transman" as one word, but it's only appropriate if one also says "cisman", and for some reason combining cis with the respective words is less frequent. Transphobia, I'd imagine.
I feel like I've never seen someone write "transpeople" who isn't actively being hateful. That one seems like there's less of an excuse for it. But then, maybe that reflects more on the communities I move in than anything.
They're not prefixes, they're abbreviations for transgender and cisgender
Linguistically they're prefixes I mean. You're right, when used on its own it is an abbreviation but within transgender or cisgender they're prefixes. It's a relatively new thing to use "trans" or "cis" as an abbreviation instead of a prefix, so it feels natural to turn it back into a prefix by attaching it to the next word, and "transwoman" and "ciswoman" still kind of work as long as you do both because cis- and trans- are modifying the womanness. I agree that even that is uncomfortable and othering though, it's definitely better to use trans as an adjective on its own and not divide women/men into separate subcategories based on transness. I just am more understanding of that particular faux pas because I get how people come by it.
"Transpeople" on the other hand doesn't work the same unless you're referring to those who are trans-person and don't identify as people, which I imagine is not who these people are referring to on purpose and rather they are dehumanizing us as a whole. Both are bad, but I don't think they're equivalent.