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The Hollow Vessel 🩸 [oc]

Even if it’s people who you disagree with, people who are factually wrong about something or even people who are straight-up evil, you don’t get to decide who is and who isn’t trans. It’s nobody’s decision. They’re still trans. Just probably don’t have many other trans friends. Republican trans people are still trans, they’re just also either not very smart or knowingly supporting hate against their own community.

Also, this is a reminder to not belittle the experiences of other people just because they differ from you, and a reminder to never ever misgender someone, even if you dislike them.

A community is built on shared lived experiences and needs. When the boundaries of a community become too broad, the core bond that unites its members can get diluted. For marginalized groups like transsexuals, our community is meant to address specific needs (like assimilation and medical recognition). When people who do not share those specific needs and the vulnerabilities we face enter our space, the focus shifts, and actual transsexuals often end up losing our dedicated support system.

For transsexuals, getting medical recognition and maintaining access to gender affirming care is a matter of life or death. literally. The push for demedicalization that comes from non-dysphorics and the larger modern trans community actually validates the arguments of insurance companies and lawmakers who want to categorize gender-affirming care as cosmetic/elective, rather than medically necessary. This goes directly against the best interest of transsexuals.

Historically, the main goal of the trans rights movement was to blend into society safely and live normal lives without constant scrutiny. When the community's focus shifts toward hypervisibility or redefining gender as a social identity, it draws intense political and legal backlash. This backlash falls hardest on binary trans individuals who just want to transition and exist quietly.

“transmedicalism” is a word that means “knowing that cisgender transsexuals (a subset of trans people) suffer (or did at some point) from gender dysphoria, and needs transition to feel whole”.

i do not understand the visceral hatred that this hellsite has for transmedicalism, or the existence of binary trans people in general.

rejecting transmedicalism also opens the door wide open for transspecies, transage, transrace, “nonbinary women”, “nonbinary men”, “afab trans women”, “amab trans men”, and other bullshit.

transmedicalism is not only necessary but good for trans people to be understood, get rights, and fight transphobic laws. and yet, it’s so vilified and misunderstood by people for whom gender is just a game.