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Is trans a slur
Trans is merely the accurate descriptor. To my knowledge it's never been inherently negative, though the tone of a person using it may sometimes be. It has certainly been perverted into slurs, e.g. "tranny" It does seem some folks see the idea of transness so repulsive that they interpret it as a slur, something to fling at someone they see as less than, particularly when they fail to meet some perceived standard of appearance. In that sense, it mirrors common derogatory use of "gay", or the good old misogynistic labeling of perceived insufficient masculinity as being "girly".
Honestly, all three of those things likely had a significant impact on my own progress on a sense of self. That sense that being non hetero was a negative, that physical weakness or not liking trucks and fighting was negatively feminine, and that transness as depicted to me by way of popular media was either villainous and deceptive, a sexual perversion, or a joke. Those have always been the problems through. Not the word.