This blog has been dead for well over a year, but FYI, I no longer identify as truscum or support truscum beliefs. This community convinced me that I was cisgender for three solid years and discouraged me from exploring my gender because I didn’t want to be a “nasty trender.” I pushed away all of my gender dysphoria and signs of being trans due to internalized transphobia that was absolutely heightened by the toxic people in this community. I praised myself for being better than those “privileged trenders” who were “making the community look bad.” I was aggressively hateful to nonbinary people because I, myself, was afraid and confused and taught by people older than me that these people were the enemy.
On top of that, you do not need dysphoria to be trans. The idea that you do is based in not only outdated, but binary-exclusive research. I apologize sincerely to anyone I may have hurt with my posts. At the time, I genuinely believed what I posted and thought I was doing the right thing. I thought I was helping the trans community. I thought I was saving us from “trenders.”
In conclusion? Truscum don’t deserve hate or death threats. Nobody deserves hate or death threats. Nonetheless, no longer do I identify with or support this community, and I strongly urge everyone who may see this to consider why exactly I have done a 180 since being gone. There is a reason this community has a bad reputation. Why? Because you repeat the same debunked science over and over again and show zero concern for the harm you’re causing your own community. Our own community. You take your frustration on other trans people you deem “invalid” when in reality, you have no idea what these people are going through.
This blog will stay up and hopefully it will serve as a memoir for all other young, confused kids out there.
TLDR? I was a hateful cis truscum for three years before finally realizing I’m just a heavily dysphoric nonbinary with internalized transphobia, and I hope everyone else who’s still truscum takes something from this post. The information I was given, and the information on this blog, is both bias and outdated.
The fact that this blog has 3,000 followers is horrifying. Regardless, I’m deleting this blog but keeping this post up because I have no desire to get my main blog terminated over dumb shit I did when I was younger.
And just for the record, I’m not a tucute now either. Both groups are full of incredibly toxic people. The fact of the matter is that no, you don’t need dysphoria to be trans. But both groups? Terrible. I recommend nobody align with either of them.
Fight back again hate, but don’t be hateful in the process. Being hateful makes people feel more stubborn and justified in their beliefs. Harassing people isn’t educating them. Invalidating people isn’t educating them. Good day to you all.