Auzkhia wrote:Saciu wrote:I'm referring to sex, not gender.
Btw I do hope that eventually individualy LGBT months are replaced by entire fair treatment of LGBT people, a bit similar to year round pride months but treating LGBT people less differently.
TERFs, by definition, exclude all trans women. Transmeds do not, by definition, exclude all trans people who fail to pass. Your sweeping generalisations are quite frankly offensive. Sure, some transmeds are hostile to those who don't pass well, but that does not mean that all are. It would be useful if you gave evidence of your NB friend's experience.
Let's cut to the chase, transmedicalism is unnecessary gatekeeping, similar but to not same as other forms of gender based gatekeeping. The details and differences are that transmedicalism tries to answer a question that frankly doesn't need to be asked or answered.
How do we determine which trans people are valid? Why are people trans?
We don't, just take their word for it, to help them along with questioning and forming their identity. It doesn't matter why people are trans, people just are, and to repurpose Catherine Mackinnon:
"I always thought I don't care how someone becomes trans; it does not matter to me. It is just part of their specificity, their uniqueness, like everyone else's. Anybody who identifies as trans, wants to be trans, is going around being trans, as far as I'm concerned, is transgender"
How do we determine which trans people are valid? Valid trans people are ones that have gender dysphoria.
Why are people trans? Because they have gender dysphoria.
Gatekeeping, in this instance can be useful. Some people without dysphoria medically transition, and it is incredibly mentally damaging for them. Gatekeeping would prevent them from taking medications that will in fact give them dysphoria.