good response, thank you.

In a lot of cases we do fail to see the value in such terms, however, if others want to use those for themselves we aren’t going to stop them. Personally we’d hate it if people forced them on us or expected it from us and we don’t really want to know what others were assigned at birth. We much prefer trans man, woman, femme, masc, or nonbinary etc because although that kind of tells us some things, it doesn’t tell us everything, it still wraps some things in mystery. We also very much dislike mtf, ftm etc as though some may feel that way we don’t really feel like gender nor sex works that way exactly. However, again, we aren’t going to restrict others if they want to use it, but we do absolutely wonder why people do think that way.

We also, as a side note, think pre-op, post-op is kind of unnecessary for most people to know either, but again, we’re not going to stop anyone saying that.

We think these things, like Mars-in-Theory🦋 says are only really necessary in some contexts and like you say some are comfortable sharing them. Personally we don’t want to know and don’t care unless we’re dating someone, that’s the only time it really makes a difference to us anyway and even then, we wouldn’t want someone or somemany to express it in such a way, more just being specific about what genitals they have and what they prefer in sex, kink, or not, not using such a catchall/general/generic term.

That’s just us though.