Sundhedsfaglige manualer, professionelle journalistiske [[stilmanual]]er og [[LGBT]]-grupper anbefaler at andre i deres interaktioner med en transkønnet person anvender det navn og de [[stedord]] som den pågældende person selv identificerer sig med, heriblandt nutidige henvisninger til transpersonens fortid.<ref name="APA Complicated">{{cite web |last=Glicksman |first=Eve |title=Transgender terminology: It's complicated |url=http://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/04/complicated.aspx |publisher=American Psychological Association |access-date=2013-09-17 |location=Vol 44, No. 4 |page=39 |date=april 2013 |quote=Use whatever name and gender pronoun the person prefers |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925130527/http://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/04/complicated.aspx |archive-date=2013-09-25 |df= }}</ref><ref name="Fenway Meeting">{{cite web |url=http://www.ama-assn.org/resources/doc/glbt/tfi-grand-rounds-makadon.ppt |title=Meeting the Health Care Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) People: The End to LGBT Invisibility |publisher=The Fenway Institute |access-date=2013-09-17 |page=24 |format=PowerPoint Presentation |quote=Use the pronoun that matches the person's gender identity |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020025808/http://www.ama-assn.org/resources/doc/glbt/tfi-grand-rounds-makadon.ppt |archive-date=2013-10-20 |url-status=live }}</ref> Mange bemærker også at ''transkønnet'' ({{lang-en|transgender}}) bør anvendes som et tillægsord, ikke et navneord (for eksempel, "Max er transkønnet" eller "Max er en transkønnet mand", ikke "Max er en transkønnet").<ref>[http://cltampa.com/bedpost/archives/2014/01/11/savage-love-gayed-blacked-transgendered Dan Savage, ''Savage Love: Gayed, Blacked, Transgendered'' (Creative Loafing, 11 January 2014)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160125192423/http://cltampa.com/bedpost/archives/2014/01/11/savage-love-gayed-blacked-transgendered |date=25. januar 2016 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-t Guardian and Observer style guide] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709224453/https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-t |date=2017-07-09 }}: use transgender [...] only as an adjective: transgender person, trans person; never "transgendered person" or "a transgender"</ref> På [[engelsk (sprog)|engelsk]] anbefales ligeledes at man betegner folk som ''transgender'' og ikke ''transgendered''.<ref name="GLAAD's Transgender Resource Page">Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. [http://www.glaad.org/transgender "GLAAD's Transgender Resource Page"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006101255/http://www.glaad.org/transgender |date=2012-10-06 }}, "[[GLAAD]]", USA. Retrieved 2011-02-24. "Problematic: "transgendered". Preferred: transgender. The adjective transgender should never have an extraneous "-ed" tacked onto the end. An "-ed" suffix adds unnecessary length to the word and can cause tense confusion and grammatical errors. It also brings transgender into alignment with lesbian, gay, and bisexual. You would not say that Elton John is "gayed" or Ellen DeGeneres is "lesbianed," therefore you would not say Chaz Bono is "transgendered."</ref>
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