Jean-Paul Sartre wrote:I’m curious, among the trans people here, what are your thoughts on transmedicalism, that is, the belief that dysphoria is required to be trans?
A trash contradictory theory for people who hate gender noncomforming trans people and nonbinary trans people as well. It's repackaged gender essentialism and internalized bigotry spread by people who can't help themselves, so they want to make other people suffer. They agree with transphobes that being trans is a bad thing and makes one broken. Transmeds are to trans people what terfs are to radical feminism. It's bigotry that keeps people repressed in the closet for far too long.
However, if one wants to engage me here you go:
Gatekeeping has done nothing but harm for the trans commmunity, and I'd like to see a transmed point to actual example of it helping. And even if "trenders" did exist (they don't!), wouldn't that mean that trans people are accepted if it were seen as a cool thing to be so?
Even so, what does one mean by gender dysphoria? Body or social? Gender dysphoria can vary between people, not all of it is the same, and it is a bug, not a feature. Also, gender euphoria is a common and valid reason to transition.
But ultimately, why should we decide who's valid and isn't? Why gatekeep, when we can just accept people's self identification in a society that tells people their assigned genders at birth are fixed and unwavering that only two of that exists? Why are people trans? Because they are, most people accept born this way for non-straight people, yet, why have a theory for being trans? I think transmeds miss out on something— transgender people should not have to justify themselves for their right to exist.