Transgender People Against Transtrending

A really good friend of mine just came out to me as being a transsexual woman. And although I don’t have any problem with that whatsoever I have some doubts. I’m not really sure about how this transsexuality thing works and I don’t want to hurt her feelings asking questions that might be painful to answer. Especially in the beginning of her transition.

I really need someone to teach me about the matter so I can be supportive. I want to understand so I can help her go trough the transition, which I imagine is not easy.

So please please please, I am so sorry for my ignorance, but I want to be helpful.

Holy shit

That’s exactly what TERFs and social conservatives say. That it’s a cosmetic choice to transition, rather than what we NEED to not go insane. That’s why insurance companies and state healthcare refuse to cover transition

The Endocrine Society, an international organization of medical experts and biological researchers, has released a new set of guidelines for caring for transgender patients. Along with the guidelines, the organization has issued a position statement calling on federal and private insurers to cover the costs of all medical interventions a physician might prescribe for a transgender patient, including hormone replacement therapies and surgeries.

The updated guidelines and position statement reflect the latest research on gender identity and the shift away from understanding gender dysphoria as a mental illness. “Considerable scientific evidence has emerged demonstrating a durable biological element underlying gender identity,” the statement reads. “Individuals may make choices due to other factors in their lives, but there do not seem to be external forces that genuinely cause individuals to change gender identity.”

I’m sorry to inform many in tumblr’s “trans” community, but being trans is not a choice. It’s not something you are because you don’t fit the ‘50s stereotyped gender roles. Being trans is biological. This kind of research has been around for decades. It was nascent when I transitioned back in ‘77. Between then and ‘84, I participated in several studies towards the discovery that being trans was something biological and something that someone’s either born with or happens so early in childhood development that it’s indistinguishable from born with. 

Trans is a medical condition. As such it should be covered by ALL insurance companies as well as state insurers. Saying it’s a choice is simply scientifically wrong. And saying it’s a choice allows the insurance industry to paint life-saving transition treatments as ‘cosmetic’ and ‘not medically necessary’. In short, the tumblr trans-trender community is actively hurting actual trans people. 

Being a transmedicalist is not transphobic or anti-trans nor does it make you ‘scum’ (as in the epithet ‘truscum’.) Transmedicalism is backed by science and has been backed by science for over 40 years. If you’re super offended by those facts, then perhaps you need to examine why you think you’re trans. Because believe me, all the trans people I’ve met in real life in the past 40 years, anyone off of tumblr or away from ‘queer studies’ brainwashed ivory tower crap, WANTED and NEEDED medical transition. I have met 100s of trans people in my life. Many had reasons they couldn’t transition. ALL of them WANTED to transition. Those who didn’t learned within the year of diagnostic treatment, that they weren’t trans. 

Trans people tend to take great comfort in knowing that this wasn’t something they chose or a psychological ‘problem’. Knowing that it was part of their biology. Because trans people don’t want to be trans. We wish we were born cis of the right gender that matches our brains. Trans women wish they were born cis women and will do everything they can to approach that approximation. Trans men wish they were born men and will do everything they can to approach that approximation.

And by that I mean; Gee, I wonder why people who experience life ruining symptoms they still haven’t received any treatment for would be more protective of their right to accessing that treatment than people who are already receiving it.

I really just wish this whole “you don’t need dysphoria to be trans” thing would just hurry up and die already and people can go back to being GNC without thinking they need to transition.

Type one: 

 “trans people are fucking disgusting and should be eradicated along with the homosexuals!”

Type two: 

“you don’t need to be dysphoric to be trans!!! uwu” “you only need to identify as something else!” “you’re already biologically male/female so you don’t need to transition!”

Type three: