Proctopeo wrote:Auzkhia wrote:Exactly. It's basically a by word for "trans person I don't like".
Literally not.
It also validates cis ignorance and gives transphobes more ammunition.
How?
More gatekeeping hurts the trans community.
Gatekeeping is a necessary action to ensure order, stability, and consistency. Look at what a mess feminism became due to people waiting to gatekeep until it was too late to do anything: they got, among many other things, TERFs from not doing so.
Even if "trenders" were real, one person getting through and then having to detranisition would be better than people waiting years for HRT or surgeries and needing two letters of recommendation from (usually cis) psychologists to "prove" that they are dysphoric enough to get treatment.
A balanced approach is best in this case.
Call me a "tucute" (something transmedicalists call their detractors),
Actually, it's what anti-transmedicalists (specifically, one clique of them, but the term has since broadened) call themselves. "Truscum" comes from the same source, and is a term broadly used by anti-transmedicalists to refer to transmedicalists in a derogatory way.
but I think we should let all trans people, and nonbinary people, they are trans too, transition as soon as they can, however that means to them. Not everyone wants "surgery", for example. There is no right way to be trans. How do you know you are one? By not being your assigned gender at birth.
Galaxy brain stuff right here. Circular definitions, unlike circular objects, get you nowhere but your starting point, you know.