while medical transition may not a requirement for simply being trans, it is still absolutely essential for all trans people to be able to freely and easily access gender affirming care. it must always be an option for any trans person.
literally no one is saying that trans people who genuinely do not want to medically transition (or cannot medically transition for any reason) are not ‘real’ trans people because they aren’t medically transitioning. what people are saying, however, is that it is counterproductive to trans collective liberation to be telling other trans people, or normalizing cis people telling trans people, “you don’t have to medically transition to be trans” as a way of pacifying those of us whose focus and goal is to broaden access to gender affirming medical care and, ultimately, bodily autonomy.
it is not an “overreaction” for trans people to call it “fascist” when a sentiment like “you don’t need to medically transition to be trans” spreads, particularly within trans communities where some (often transmisogyny-exempt) trans people, in reaction to their fellow trans community members expressing their need to medically transition, whether that's needing to raise money or move across borders to access gender affirming care, pursue diy hormone replacement therapy, or the ordeal of being gatekept by cis psychiatrists and medical professionals who are actively impeding trans peoples' ability to medically transition how and when they want to. denial of bodily autonomy is fascist.
you may very well have 'good intentions' in thinking that what you are saying to another trans person, when you say "you don't need to medically transition to be trans", is helpful or otherwise benign but the trans person you are saying this to almost certainly already knows this. they don't need you telling them to, basically, cope. giving credence to the idea that trans people need to 'wait until we're certain' about wanting to medically transition, whatever form that takes, is dangerous.
like most other general medical care, gender affirming healthcare and reproductive autonomy are similarly linked in this regard. you wouldn't tell someone seeking an abortion that they need to wait until they're sure they don't want to be pregnant, would you? no. you would not, not unless you're a fascist. you know who literally does this? the fucking fascist natalists who work at those 'crisis pregnancy centers' and whose job it is to shame and bully people who need abortions out of getting abortions and the spineless so-called medical professionals working in healthcare who prioritize their anti-choice religious convictions or fascist beliefs over their duties as a doctor and gatekeep necessary medical care from their pregnant patients seeking abortions, not to mention the many powerful anti-choice fascist lawmakers and politicians.
i am begging you all to please get serious about this. use your heads. it is not your place, even as a trans person, to tell other trans people unsolicited advice about what to do with our bodies. if you are getting along just fine as a trans person who isn't medically transitioning, i'm happy for you. but you need to remember that this is about bodily autonomy and it always has been. no one is taking away your right to not medically transition.
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