#trutransers

[spooky-x-stars]

every time i see some whack as fuck argument from trutransers about how transtrenders are ruining everything, all that runs through my head is

"we're climbin in your windows, snatchin your hormones up"

[metapianycist]

nines19 hat auf deinen Eintrag geantwortet: I think what it comes down to is that I am willing...

I think its kind of weird that they focus almost exclusively on nonbinary people as though no trans man could ever possibly be misogynist, personally.

I agree. You'd think that a person with internalized misogyny would be more likely to be very strongly male-identified in order to completely dissociate themself from femininity. Or the opposite could happen, and the person's internalized misogyny drives them to attempt to be the perfect 100% feminine woman.

[metapianycist]

I think what it comes down to is that I am willing to accept a non-binary person's statement of "I have confronted and dealt with my internalized misogyny and I am still [identified gender]," and trutransers are not.

Also, that I don't immediately think "This person might have internalized misogyny that makes them identify that way and say they want hormones/surgery!" when I encounter a person with a nontraditional transition plan or another non-binary person.

My stance is that if you believe that cross-sex hormones and/or surgery will improve your quality of life and make you feel more comfortable in your body, that is a good enough reason to seek them out. I trust people to do their own research on individual surgeries and on side effects of hormones--because mistakenly undergoing surgery is extremely rare, and if hormones are the wrong decision for you, you will know that before any permanent changes take place.

I also think there are better ways to combat stereotypes of trans people than to insist to some of them that they're not really trans. Like confronting cis people with actual data to show them that they're wrong.

[metapianycist]

In case anyone other than theotheropinion was wondering about what I mean by "trutransers"

I use it to mean what other people mean when they say truscum, because I personally don't like the word "scum," and the -er refers to doing something. Trutransers are

transsexual persons who believe that the only people who should be allowed to transition are people with body dysphoria who want to transition "fully," e.g. trans people who fit the narrative of experiencing themself as being "in the wrong body" until they transition

persons who believe that the only people who should be allowed to transition are those who conceive of themselves as persons with a medical condition called transsexualism, who fit the DSM-IV's criteria for transsexualism/GID, interpreted to refer strictly to binary genders only.

people who believe that people with nontraditional transition plans and/or non-binary people who want hormones or surgery are "transtrenders"

I have no beef with people who fit the "in the wrong body" narrative, nor a beef with people who consider themselves people of transsexual experience (or people with transsexualism), rather than trans people. I have a problem with it when that narrative is enforced as the only legitimate way for people to be allowed hormones and surgery, and when enforcement of that narrative results in arguing with non-binary people about what their genders are. When people use that narrative to say that no other people should be allowed hormones, surgery, or to be called pronouns other than those of their birth assignment.

If you conceive of yourself as a person with a medical condition called transsexualism and you don't do shit to mock or invalidate non-binary experiences of gender and transition plans that are vastly different than your own, you are not doing anything wrong and you are not a trutranser. It's none of my business and I don't care if "trans" is not a descriptor you feel a strong connection towards. I have spoken to individuals who transitioned and chose to consider themselves a cisgender member of the gender to which they transitioned, and since that is not harming anyone, I don't take issue with it.

So yeah. Trutranser = truscum = person who enforces the narrative that the only right way to be trans/transsexual is to be what Western medicine once called a "true transsexual." If you don't think that I'm stupid or "really just a confused girl" for my choice to take testosterone while not considering myself a man and not having the intention to be on it for my whole life, you're not a trutranser.