# What Trans Would You Like To Be?

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**Created:** [July 14, 2016, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-trans-would-you-like-to-be/759918 "2016-07-14T20:14:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-trans-would-you-like-to-be/759918/56 "2016-07-15T21:39:16Z")

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> [@On the Topic of Transgenders](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-topic-of-transgenders/753980/304):
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> If I was born feeling that I was really a dog inside…

As it happens, our former neighbors were a family whose last name was Tran, and so it was common in our house to refer to their pet as the Trans’ cat. After a while it occurred to me that that might sound odd or disrespectful out of context.

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