As a programmer, I still read "trans*" as "everything that starts with the prefix 'trans'" (which, initially I believe it basically was, being shorthand for "transgender, transsexual, transvestite") and was very puzzled the first time I saw it being objected to as a footnote-type notation.
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Date: 2023-01-27 07:03 am (UTC)As a programmer, I still read "trans*" as "everything that starts with the prefix 'trans'" (which, initially I believe it basically was, being shorthand for "transgender, transsexual, transvestite") and was very puzzled the first time I saw it being objected to as a footnote-type notation.