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As of recent I've been reading some Wikipedia articles on gender and sexuality leading out from the LGTB (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) page. However, it was not clear to me why the former term transgendered, which may or may not have been in so common usage, would have been dropped in favor of the term transgender, which seems like it sounds more like a noun than an adjective, unlike lesbian, gay, and bisexual, which to me sound more like adjectives or at the most adverbs than anything else, in what I would regard as proper English usage, correct me if I'm wrong here.

As of recent I've been reading some Wikipedia articles on gender and sexuality leading out from the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) page. However, it was not clear to me why the former term transgendered, which may or may not have been in so common usage, would have been dropped in favor of the term transgender, which seems like it sounds more like a noun than an adjective, unlike lesbian, gay, and bisexual, which to me sound more like adjectives or at the most adverbs than anything else, in what I would regard as proper English usage, correct me if I'm wrong here.

As of recent I've been reading some Wikipedia articles on gender and sexuality leading out from the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) page. However, it was not clear to me why the former term trans-gendered, which may or may not have been in so common usage, would have been dropped in favour of the term transgender, which seems like it sounds more like a noun than an adjective, unlike lesbian, gay, and bisexual, which to me sound more like adjectives or at the most adverbs than anything else, in what I would regard as proper English usage, please correct me if I'm wrong here.

As of recent I've been reading some Wikipedia articles on gender and sexuality leading out from the LGTB (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) page. However, it was not clear to me why the former term transgendered, which may or may not have been in so common usage, would have been dropped in favor of the term transgender, which seems like it sounds more like a noun than an adjective, unlike lesbian, gay, and bisexual, which to me sound more like adjectives or at the most adverbs than anything else, in what I would regard as proper English usage, correct me if I'm wrong here.

As of recent I've been reading some Wikipedia articles on gender and sexuality leading out from the LGTB (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) page. However, it was not clear to me why the former term transgendered, which may or may not have been in so common usage, would have been dropped in favor of the term transgender, which seems like it sounds more like a noun than an adjective, unlike lesbian, gay, and bisexual, which to me sound more like adjectives or at the most adverbs than anything else, in what I would regard as proper English usage, correct me if I'm wrong here.

As of recent I've been reading some Wikipedia articles on gender and sexuality leading out from the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) page. However, it was not clear to me why the former term trans-gendered, which may or may not have been in so common usage, would have been dropped in favour of the term transgender, which seems like it sounds more like a noun than an adjective, unlike lesbian, gay, and bisexual, which to me sound more like adjectives or at the most adverbs than anything else, in what I would regard as proper English usage, please correct me if I'm wrong here.