What Does Trans* Mean, and Where Did It Come From?

First published on Slate, January 10, 2014. Read the original here.
It’s widely accepted that computer-mediated communication—emailing, texting, sexting, commenting, chatting, and so on—has changed the way we speak, even when we’re away from the keyboard. But a new label being embraced online by some transgender people may represent a linguistic first: borrowing from [...]