Hey, thanks for making that transID alternatives post! I have something to add about why transID isn't the best term.
I was an adult during the 2010s Tumblr era, including the rise of MOGAI and otherkin on the platform. The first time I ever saw "trans [anything other than gender]" were on these very obvious troll blogs that were mocking transgender people and otherkin.
A very, very large portion of these blogs claimed, in addition to being transgender and transspecies, that they were transethnic or transabled, and if you didn't treat them as the race they claimed they wanted to be or the disability they were claiming, you were transphobic and no better than people who don't treat trans people as their genders.
I cannot overstate it that these people were trolls and not operating in good faith. Similarly to how the first use of the word "radqueer" was from outside the MOGAI community to mock the MOGAI community, the first use of what would now be recognized as "transID" came similarly from outside the community by people who want to mock it.
I have other complaints about comparing atypical forms of identity to queer identities by way of the "trans" prefix (transspecies is excluded because it has such a different history), but in terms of an older origin thing that others may not know as much about, yeah, that's something I remember that not everyone might know about.
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And!!! 🐀 is back at it again with the bangerposting!!
I did find out a page on the LGBTQIA+ wiki that pointed out that radqueer was actually derogatory against MOGAI people. Whether that is completely real or not, is yet to be fully uncovered by my own research… which is slower than snail, oops!!
Also, there is something ableist and straight up wrong about calling yourself trans-traumatized. I don’t know, but it kind of rings as “I have trauma I am not willing to accept yet” kind of energy that I honestly can’t even feel happy about. I think Augustine or someone else said it on a post, but being trans-abused or trans-traumatized is actually a cry for help, in my honest opinion.
I guess I should say something among the lines of: “I’m sorry that you went through it. It’s okay to be a victim, but you survived. You are here, standing. You don’t need a transID term, you just need a hug and comprehension.
But, I digress.
