Thank you Romani for the grammar clarification. I had used it as a verb since I thought of it as a process with a start and a finish. Making up names to protect friends, once the person named Brandy completed the legal process to become Brad, I thought of Brad as Transgendered. As in the gender transition is complete. Past tense. Male through new passport, birth certificate, etc. (I don’t need to know about anatomy, this is a kid the age of my children, TMI). He’s now legally and socially male so I thought past tense was correct. Though when I refer to him it’s always “This is my friend Cathy’s son Brad”., not any qualifiers.