I used to be truscum. You know, transmedicalism. I am trans, I genuinely believed that all nonbinary and non dysphoric trans people were faking being trans for attention. I argued that one required dysphoria to be considered trans. I fake claimed trans supporters of non binary people. I made claims that because they weren't suffering like I was, they were making a mockery of what I was experiencing.
I asked the question: Why would anyone who wasnt dysphoric go through this unless for attention? I accused them of stealing resources from 'legitimately' trans people. I accused them of being transphobic. Of wearing my identity as a costume to feel special. I had stories of a single individual nonbinary person who hurt me that I used to paint all nonbinary people as predatory. I accused happy trans people of faking because how could they like how they look and find joy and whimsy in what was to me nothing but suffering and pain.
I was blatently wrong about ALL of this. So when I say that anti-endos are the same as transmeds, this is where Im coming from. The arguments are EXACTLY the same ones I was making to excuse my own bigotry towards a group of people I didn't understand: nonbinary and non dysphoric trans people. I have yet to see a single anti-endo stance that doesnt have a direct parallel to the bigoted stuff i used to say when I was sipping the truscum koolaid.
