'Timmy On The Tranny'.

[sandyRoe]

Just heard a mention of an old radio programme with that title.  It featured Timmy Mallet.

It couldn't be called that now, could it?

[Barsel]

No, it has a different meaning now. Back then it was a transistor radio.

[Cloverjo]

Also, tranny meant transvestite. It feels like a dirty word now. No one is transvetite now. They're transgender. 

[brainiac]

//No one is transvestite now//

 

Not so.  I think Eddie Izzard and Grayson Perry, for example, are transvestites - they absolutely do not claim to be transgender, they just enjoy wearing female clothes and having a female alter ego. 

[Dizmo]

It went from transexual to transgender - that was what was correctly used, previously.

[Ellipsis]

Timmy on the Tranny is OK. Timmy is a Tranny wouldn't be  true, let alone a good name for a radio show.

[douglas9401]

Is there an office somewhere with adjudicators mulling this stuff day in and out?

It's all just made up, pandering nonsense and we can't all change our language just because a few precious wee things say we have to, surely.