Transexual doesn’t water down transition the way transgender does.
Transexual has more aura, like it’s a word you can really spit, it’s a word that you can savor every syllable of.
Try it, pretend it’s year of our Lord 1980, and spit out that word, drawing out the S, and spit it out like fire 🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥. Now try the same for transgender… You can’t.
The word “darling” also has aura, but it’s too drag queen coded for everyday use.
it really doesn’t matter, yeah. i like transsexual because it’s what I grew up identifying with more and it is more accurate to my views of sex, but it’s true that no cis person actually cares about the distinction.