Depends on the person but a lot of trans people consider it offensive. Transgender is more of a blanket term and transsexual usually relates to surgical changes. For instance I'm transgender because of my internal feelings and desire for specific social interactions but I also consider myself transsexual because of the surgeries I've had (but 99% of the time will just say I'm transgender because it's a lot easier than going into all this). Transsexual was used as a blanket term in a way that doesn't vibe with a lot of trans people and was/is used as a slur, and more recently it has found a place with truscum/transmedicalist types furthering it's problematic nature

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Ohh ok. I mean, I was looking at the root word as gender the social construct and sex (typically XX, XY). I thought the idea is if a trans person could choose to change sexes, they would (science, magic wand, whatever to go XX to XY or XY to XX).