Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24881871-20141004223618/@comment-24881871-20141004225623

3alexbalex wrote:   "Tranny" has long been used to describe someone who has changed his or her sex, but under our current set of rules, anyone who uses it must be banned. Must we go through the trouble of saying "a person who has changed sexes" to avoid offending a handful of people when instead, for the sake of simplicity, we could say a six-letter word?

But you haven't realized that the "6 Letter word" is derogatory. Thats like calling someone the N word because you are too lazy to say they are dark skinned

This is the problem. People need only shout "I'm offended!" to shut down any debate. Hell, most black people I know are annoyed more by "African American" than "nigger" because the former tries to make it sound like saying "black people" is somehow bad.