#and the fucking transmedicalism

[pingus-snorter]

honestly i didn’t realize how bad the transfem vs transmasc/everyone else discourse is online until. I decided to come looking for some thoughts from non-binary ppl who used to identify as binary trans people. and i learned two things. One is that that’s a lots harder to find for some reason and it’s discouraging me a bit and also online trans people are way too wrapped up in fucking hierarchies of oppression.

I think trans people should be allowed to have nuanced conversations about our varied experiences and recognize intersectionality but goddamn we do not need to constantly be comparing our levels of oppression. Transandrophobia and transmisogyny are both transphobia. Both equally bad. And everyone, even cis people are capable of experiencing forms of those bigotries in their life, myself included. I have been seen as a cis woman, a trans man, trans woman, faggot, dyke or whatever else people decide, and I am not stopping to ask the last transphobe who assaulted me what gender assigned birth they thought I was so I could decide how bad it really was.

[taliabhattwrites]

This is the fourth time I've seen someone say that not having to lie to your doctor about your gender to get HRT is a privilege

Leaving the inadequacy of the 'privilege' framework aside

Folks

Folx

We're all lying to our doctors

The foundational work of transfeminism, Sandy Stone's Empire Strikes Back, talks extensively about the proud history of trans women swapping answer sheets and tips from the Harry Benjamin guidelines

Folx doctors hate us and don't want us to have care and trying to extract anything more than The Turing Treatment from them is like pulling teeth

Folx a lot of us aren't getting our HRT from doctors because they wouldn't give it to us

Folks stop having the most naive view of transition possible and engage with reality folx I AM BEGGING

[rjalker]

It's 2024. Stop saying that there are male and female brains. That's literally fucking misogyny. It doesn't become progressive because you're using it to quote unquote prove that trans women really are women and trans men really are men. Nobody needs to get a fucking brain scan for you to respect their fucking gender. If you require brain scans for quote unquote proof that trans people are the gender they tell you they are you don't actually support trans people. You don't actually support trans people.

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[supertrubi]

This model is exactly what happened in the 2010s with transsexuals being appropriated by non-dysphorics BTW

[whereserpentswalk]

Don't trust anyone who complains about seeing too many nonbinary people who "look like girls" or seeing too many trans men who "aren't masc enough". They do not have good intentions, are using truscum rhetoric, and have outed themselves as inherently seeing bodies they see as feminine as lesser.

[tinylambnursery]

friendly reminder that just bc a trans guy doesn’t bind and actually quite enjoys his chest does not mean his breasts do not cause him any kind of dysphoria.

i don’t bind, and i love my chest. bras give me dysphoria. i get so uncomfortable putting mine on for work every morning and i literally dread doing it. i am wholeheartedly unhappy when i wear bras. always have been.

it’s goofy as fuck to point fingers at non-binding trans dudes and accuse them of being non dysphoric when they very well could be very dysphoric.

(not a jab at non dysphorics btw. love yall)

[lust-for-ultraviolence]

Transmedicalism is the idea that being transgender is primarily a medical issue related to the incongruence between an individual's assigned sex at birth and their gender identity, characterized by gender dysphori.Many transmedicalists believe individuals who identify as transgender without experiencing gender dysphoria or desiring to undergo a medical transition through methods such as hormone replacement therapy or sex reassignment surgery are not genuinely transgender.They may also exclude those who identify themselves as non-binary from the trans label.

Exclusionist is someone who attempts to gatekeep the LGBT+ community by claiming that certain groups aren't "really" LGBT+ based on their own definition.

Example, asexual people are not lgbt for being asexual, they must be either trans or homo/bi-romantic. A cis het ace is not welcomed into the community. They also usually believe pansexual is a transphobic version of bisexual.

These are shortened definitions.

If this poll causes too much trouble, I’ll delete it.

[trans-bastard-dude]

oh great i saw something that made me mad, buckle up it’s rant time.

Transmedicalism is dumb. the idea that we have to tie shit to medical bs is dumb. you don’t need gender dysphoria to be trans, that’s fucking stupid

“but you’re making trans people look bad” we already look bad. being trans is a form of being queer. lgbt were called queer as a slur at the start, queer fucking means WEIRD. we are, in the society as it stands, fucking weirdos. own it. be the weird bastard you were born to be

“but being trans has lead to me suffering so much it must be a medical thing!” nah. you suffer because your situation is utter ass. i do not need to fit into your silly ass box to be trans, i’m me and me trans. you’re dysphoria and situation being terrible doesn’t mean everyone else’s should be.

the idea that dysphoria is needed to be trans is also dumb because like… cis people get it to. let’s say for example that a woman gets a double mastectomy due to cancer, she might feel like shit after and feel better after getting breast implants, that’s a form of gender dysphoria, but she ain’t trans is she?

and it only takes certain types of dysphoria and euphoria into account, like what about the tran gals who feel the most like women when they’re being tomboys? it’s all just so… STUPID

like come ON, why do i need to suffer to be? i suffer enough, let me be me. if you class your existence by your suffering, you will die a broken person. i do not need to suffer to be a man.

if you follow my page and are a trans med, truscum, whatever the fuck you call yourselves, leave and don’t let the door hit you on your way out.

may this post become a blocklist for all those who are sane as i am.

[godofautism]

Every part of queer is accepted here

However, ableism won't be tolerated here

Nor will arguing

If you wanna argue take it somewhere else

I will be busy enjoying my m-spec lesbian greyromantic bive headcanons and my objectum boyfriend and all of the other lesser known queers

Transid, truscum, radqueers, fakeclaimers, radfemmes, terfs, and other pieces of shit dni

If you're anti-objectum, please leave. There are so many forms of objectum. I love my plushies, a platonic amount, and love my Rammie plush as queer platonic. If it doesn't harm the person, leave them be. This isn't to say I condone everything that objectum has been classified under (aka its broad term, paraphillia, which includes things like necrophillia, which I do not condone under any circumstances) but this is to say I do not judge.

[deathtokillian]

Why am I seeing a rise in transmedicalism and truscum bullshit? I thought we were past this.

[sirenium]

I hate that there are still transmeds. Their whole ideology does nothing but hurt, and any self validation people get from this shit is very shallow and at the expense of EVERY trans person (including themselves!). I hate that there are still people who stand by such a damaging ideology, and I hate that it isn't all just a bunch of cis people. Because at its root, it's just transphobia, and trans transmeds are just transphobic. They are standing by transphobic cis people. It is a group that allows transphobic cis people to join; it gives cis transphobes an excuse to hate trans people.

I was one of many people who were hurt by this ideology. Even as I started to really identify with xenogenders, I was so worried about not being good enough as a trans person that I formed a middle ground where 'I think dysphoria is needed, but I don't police people's identities. I also think euphoria is a bigger indicator'. That was a message I sent to a server in the past. Even when I identified as 'tucute leaning' I still held on to the idea that dysphoria is at least somewhat needed to be transgender, and that isn't even the worst affect this shit has had on me.

trigger warning; Kalvin Garrah, suicide mention, t slur:

Around the time when Kalvin Garrah was big, I was starting to question my gender. I found one of his videos, and that ended up pushing me towards not realizing I was trans sooner. Luckily, though, I ended up coming out as nonbinary faster than I could've... it's just that I saw it as an alternative to being 'actually trans'. I fell back on nonbinary as a label to avoid the simple fact that I needed medical intervention for my 'nonexistent' dysphoria. As it turns out... my dysphoria was so bad, that it helped fuel my suicide attempt at 17. Regardless...

I have lingering biases towards 'tranny voice'; when first starting testosterone, I was afraid of ending up like Buck Angel for example, with his voice that didn't fit my idea of what would be a satisfactory transition outcome. I was horrified, and sometimes I still fight those thoughts as someone whose voice would be classified as 'tranny voice' as it is. Even as somebody who didn't really fall down the transmed hole, I still have struggled with views that are transmed-y. I still have scars.

I am very much someone who would have been targeted by people like Kalvin online as well, despite also being someone they would consider to be 'actually trans' in real life; online, I am the 'weird' queer, the one who uses neopronouns and is alterhuman and xenogender, whereas offline I am super stealth and dread the idea of being clocked as trans, have medically transitioned, have a 'normal' name, etc. Of course, the fact that I paint my nails would cancel all that out for some transmeds, I'm sure. It's funny too, the reason I started being more masculine is because I wasn't taken seriously, and started feeling like it's my fault because I wasn't 'putting enough effort' into things... a very transmed view.

I internalized what people said about nonbinary people, and that's what led to me thinking it was an alternative to being 'actually trans' and transitioning medically, something I surely didn't need because I 'wasn't dysphoric' in the way Kalvin, the 'actual trans person' described it, and I certainly didn't want to take resources from the real trans people. I watched people make fun of individuals who I saw myself in, and avoided acknowledging that I was really trans because of it. That's how transmedicalism harmed me.

And you know what, you don't need to have been personally harmed to see how bad transmedicalism is; take a moment to listen to trans people who have been harmed, look at how transmeds talk about being trans as something that is pure suffering and a mental illness. Listen to former transmeds who talk about how horrible transmed spaces were, and how much better they're doing now that they're in more inclusive spaces.

[pplatonic]

crying and scratching and biting because some of you really dont understand that not all transphobia is transmedicalism

[rjalker]

thatfeyboy for your free intersexist trandmed blocklist.

Is repeatedly insisting that gender dysphoria makes you intersex and is blocking and being aggressive with all the intersex people who try to correct him.

Thinks aknowledging that gender is a social construct is transmisic. Ignores everything intersex people are explaining and is just trying to bait them into "slipping up" by aknowleding that being trans is a social construct.

Please fucking mark red in Shinigami Eyes.

You can also block his sister who agrees with him about all of this, bundleofsouls

I don't even know where to start.

No, people, you cannot claim that simply having gender dysphoria makes you intersex because you for some reason hate the fact that gender is a social construct. That is not how this fucking works.

[pendantaudio]

Tilly's Trans Tuesdays episode 60: There's something insidious growing inside the trans community: transmedicalism. It's exclusionary, it's harmful, it's gatekeeping, and it needs to stop. So let's talk about what it is, why it's so bad, and where in the heck it came from (the answer may (not) surprise you). Therapist, author, and gender specialist Dr. Alex Iantaffi returns to discuss how ubiquitous transmedicalism is in the field of trans care, as well as the ways we lift each other up and the importance of self-compassion. Our collective blood is boiling.

Hosted by Tilly Bridges and Susan Bridges. Sound mixing by Jillian Morgan. Available on Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Samsung Podcasts, and more!

[momett]

the amount of popular trans blogs i have had to block due to their wildly intersexist posts is just. incredibly sad.

[wolf-tail]