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Actual shower thought: If these kids are so all about "YOUR GENDER CAN CHANGE" then why do they care about the phobic language of "when (x) was a wo/man" Like it's a shitty thing to say ever but like it doesn't really fit with what they preach (gender doesn't change, your understanding of it does)
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Where's the common cause Too many factions safely sulk in their shells Agree with us on everything or we won't help with anything That kind of attitude just makes a split grow wider.
Values I dislike in the current state of the truscum community
Not allowing the questioning of established âfactsâ, despite the origin of trusum being specifically the questioning of established âfactsâ.
Ostracision and banishment from the community being the immediate norm for minor âtrespassesâ (including saying that person X or people with X view are automatically shitty people, blocking anyone who disagrees with you, public call-outs) for all but the most extreme circumstances, e.g. call-outs being when you cannot agree to disagree as substantial harm is being caused and attempts to engage with the person has failed, etc.
People participating in groupthink and mob mentality, rather than refusing it, despite the origin of truscum being a minority backlash against groupthink and mob mentality.
People using the truscum label as a fad bandwagon to leap on and be a dick to people for the lulz, without attempting to understand the depth of the issues or help anyone.
Over-focus on the rules rather than the spirit, and the watering down of truscum. It is now about dysphoria, solely, no matter what that means, and no longer about the situation for individuals who have a medical requirement to transition.
These can be summarised as lack of engagement, lack of desire to do good and add value, and lack of understanding.
Real talk though
95% of the truscum community is shit. Youâre just the other side dressed up in different clothes and youâre more interested in playing back and forth she said-he said-volcanoself said politics, making pithy âyour fave is truscumâ posts, blaming feminists for your problems, and claiming how bad youâre being treated by kids on the internet to make any kind of real change or name any real effort to educate people.
Youâre indistinguishable from the opposition and yâall need to get your acts together.
I disagree I think the majority of truscum try their best to educate people. I do think more people should be making changes in meatspace. Starting support groups etc. Although an awful lot of truscum have fought within trans groups and been burned by those groups so I can see the hesitation.
I do think our way of dealing with conflict and the resources we make and our general demeanour is way better than anti-truscum. Our politics and attitudes are polar opposites.
The âyour fave is truscumâ and posts like that are honestly just people trying to lighten the mood. We are shit on by the wider community, we are sent horrible shit, we are treated like garbage, never mind having to deal with dysphoria, unaccepting families, mental illness etc. Itâs hard and people make silly posts to try and make things a little less grim.
Iâm really proud of the truscum community and how itâs developed. There are bad apples and people indistinguishable from anti-truscum. But those are the minority. Most of us are kind people fighting a battle together.
I canât even explain how much of a massive difference truscum have made to my life.
The thing is, I feel a lot of the community anymore is more concerned with being capital-R Right and arguing with brick walls, because hey, itâs what the tumblr platform does to ideologies.
It makes me think back to the renaissance of people calling themselves âsex bearsâ- yeah, it lightens the mood, but it rubs me the wrong way because itâs kind of leaving the point behind in order to be irreverent and quirky.
Iâm not saying there are truscum on the level of kat, because thatâs just a trainwreck, but it feels like the community is both skewing younger and dissolving as any kind of front we can call organized. There are people who agree with truscum ideas (if we can call one core belief âideasâ in the plural) who donât run blogs dedicated to it, so itâs harder to say we monitor literally everyone; the people who run distinct truscum blogs are a distinct minority.
(Also, general-not-specific-you can self police our spaces all you want, but bad eggs who believe the same thing we do are still bad eggs who believe the same thing we do who will represent us regardless of how much we excommunicate them from whatever we call our ill organized âcommunityâ.)
I just talk to everyone, most of them are brick walls, 9 times out of 10, anti-truscum are brick walls. Itâs not our fault. I donât really understand that itâs an issue that weâre concerned about being right? Like if we didnât think we were right, we wouldnât be doing what weâre doing.
The sex bears thing was a group of like five friends who were doing it for teh lulz. I donât really see an issue with people doing silly, fun things. Things canât be dedicated to truscum stuff all the time. Truscum stuff is hard, uncompromising work.
Tumblr as a website is mostly young teens, itâs not surprising that more young people are becoming truscum. In general, weâre all really young. I donât know a single truscum over 30. Weâre not an organized group, itâs impossible to have one on Tumblr. Weâre a community with a shared, core ideology.
Yeah, bad eggs are going to continue being rotten but all we can do is call them on it. We can do fuck all else.
Itâs about being capital-r Right more than being right; itâs performing for a crowd.
If being active truscum is hard, then stop doing it. Take a break. Thereâs a reason I donât post here as often anymore, and itâs because I decided the heightened anxiety of dealing with stupid people wasnât worth the positive aspects of screaming into a void, which is basically all a lot of us are doing on tumblr.
I know we canât do much else, and Iâm but saying itâs bad that truscum self-police more; Iâm just getting tired of it being touted as a defense against criticism of the community.
I donât see much âperformingâ. I donât know where you get that impression.
Itâs hard for me personally not because Iâm stressed about anti-truscum or dealing with them but because it reminds me of how utterly fucked the trans community is. Then I get a bit upset about the dysphoric kids trying to navigate the fucked trans community. Itâs more because Iâm reminded of how things are. I donât think hiding from how things are is healthy either.
Itâs a defence against the accusation that we have a large harassment problem which we do nothing about. We do what we can and we donât have a large problem. Itâs an argument against a piece of misinformation.
Itâs anger for angerâs sake; itâs not seeking people open to change, itâs picking fights (or rather engaging, I admit a lot of them come to us?) where neither side wants to do anything but âwinâ.
How is walking away from a stressful situation that you can freely walk away from âhidingâ? Take a break from truscum blogging. Blogging is not the most productive thing general-you can do for trans kids.
Itâs often brought up as a defense against any criticism of the community, and while it is an admirable effort, what does it actually do beside a few people pointing at bad eggs like âwe donât agree with that donât count us in with themâ?
Real talk though
95% of the truscum community is shit. Youâre just the other side dressed up in different clothes and youâre more interested in playing back and forth she said-he said-volcanoself said politics, making pithy âyour fave is truscumâ posts, blaming feminists for your problems, and claiming how bad youâre being treated by kids on the internet to make any kind of real change or name any real effort to educate people.
Youâre indistinguishable from the opposition and yâall need to get your acts together.
I disagree I think the majority of truscum try their best to educate people. I do think more people should be making changes in meatspace. Starting support groups etc. Although an awful lot of truscum have fought within trans groups and been burned by those groups so I can see the hesitation.
I do think our way of dealing with conflict and the resources we make and our general demeanour is way better than anti-truscum. Our politics and attitudes are polar opposites.
The âyour fave is truscumâ and posts like that are honestly just people trying to lighten the mood. We are shit on by the wider community, we are sent horrible shit, we are treated like garbage, never mind having to deal with dysphoria, unaccepting families, mental illness etc. Itâs hard and people make silly posts to try and make things a little less grim.
Iâm really proud of the truscum community and how itâs developed. There are bad apples and people indistinguishable from anti-truscum. But those are the minority. Most of us are kind people fighting a battle together.
I canât even explain how much of a massive difference truscum have made to my life.
The thing is, I feel a lot of the community anymore is more concerned with being capital-R Right and arguing with brick walls, because hey, itâs what the tumblr platform does to ideologies.
It makes me think back to the renaissance of people calling themselves âsex bearsâ- yeah, it lightens the mood, but it rubs me the wrong way because itâs kind of leaving the point behind in order to be irreverent and quirky.
Iâm not saying there are truscum on the level of kat, because thatâs just a trainwreck, but it feels like the community is both skewing younger and dissolving as any kind of front we can call organized. There are people who agree with truscum ideas (if we can call one core belief âideasâ in the plural) who donât run blogs dedicated to it, so itâs harder to say we monitor literally everyone; the people who run distinct truscum blogs are a distinct minority.
(Also, general-not-specific-you can self police our spaces all you want, but bad eggs who believe the same thing we do are still bad eggs who believe the same thing we do who will represent us regardless of how much we excommunicate them from whatever we call our ill organized âcommunityâ.)
Hey there, leader of the whole âsex bearâ thing. You do know that was a joke, right? In a chatroom that I created we were discussing the negative connotations that come with being called âtrue scumâ, so I came up with a dumb name in reference to Parks and Rec to make people laugh. It caught on outside the chatroom, but again, is a playful joke. The name âsex bearâ is just as stupid as being called âtrue scumâ and thatâs kind of the point of itâ to point out that being called a name because we have an ideology thats generally not accepted by tumblr is stupid and hurtful, to some.
Being a truscum/transmedicalist isnât all business and we donât have to act like stoic assholes all the time hellbent on educating everyone. Thatâll just make us look worse than we already do. Weâre a community of people with a similar ideology, and I see no harm in making things lighthearted once in a while.
Yeah, Iâm aware it was a joke. Iâm not sure how anyone could read it as anything else. The problem isnât that I think people arenât going to take us seriously if they see us using the name sex bears; itâs about taking ourselves seriously. When you take that joke into the open, it stops being a joke, and you become the joke.
Why does truscum mean anything more than an opinion and educating people? Literally, what is the point of building these grandiose ideas of community and ânot trying to look too seriousâ when the only thing that unites us is one idea, when our opinions on literally everything else - from otherkin to feminism to preferred tea sweetener - can be different?
If you want to look like you donât take yourself so seriously all the time, then do things unrelated to talking about gender once in a while.
What is the point of taking yourself seriously all the time? Who cares if people take us seriously? If you donât like the label sex bear, donât use it. I have not seen one person take me less seriously because I jokingly call myself a âsex bearâ. I havenât ever seen that come up in a debate. If Iâm being honest? If my opinions are taken less seriously because some friends and I decide to call ourselves a funny name then thatâs someone elseâs problem, not mine. I am intelligent and I know what I am talking about, being lighthearted doesnât change that.
If you do not want to be apart of the community because you feel that it means nothing more to you than an opinion, thatâs cool! No oneâs telling you to include yourself in it. But if other people want it to be a community and enjoy it being that way, then let them do so and donât act like theyâre lesser than or like theyâre less mature.
"Who cares if nobody takes us seriously"? Really?
I already said it wasnât about anyone else taking us seriously. Itâs about taking ourselves seriously.
There is no organized community of truscum; itâs a collection of people with one uniting belief. I canât leave that.
Why would you take yourself seriously all the time? Whatâs the fun in that?
I really donât know what your point is then? If thereâs no community, then what are you upset about?
Do you support this ideology because it's fun?
There's a communIty in the way there's an lgbt+ community, but it's not a community like an internet forum that you can join or leave.
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Don't get me wrong I'll still take truscum over tucutes any day because I still firmly believe that dysphoria is required to be trans But I reject the "we don't act like the worst of them so we're fine", the flippancy with which we treat our cause (if we only have one uniting belief, and we don't take ourselves seriously...), and the idea that we are a community one can join or leave and not one based on holding one solitary belief.
It's not about taking yourself seriously 100% of the time, it's about taking your issues and the advocacy thereof seriously.
Real talk though
95% of the truscum community is shit. Youâre just the other side dressed up in different clothes and youâre more interested in playing back and forth she said-he said-volcanoself said politics, making pithy âyour fave is truscumâ posts, blaming feminists for your problems, and claiming how bad youâre being treated by kids on the internet to make any kind of real change or name any real effort to educate people.
Youâre indistinguishable from the opposition and yâall need to get your acts together.
I disagree I think the majority of truscum try their best to educate people. I do think more people should be making changes in meatspace. Starting support groups etc. Although an awful lot of truscum have fought within trans groups and been burned by those groups so I can see the hesitation.
I do think our way of dealing with conflict and the resources we make and our general demeanour is way better than anti-truscum. Our politics and attitudes are polar opposites.
The âyour fave is truscumâ and posts like that are honestly just people trying to lighten the mood. We are shit on by the wider community, we are sent horrible shit, we are treated like garbage, never mind having to deal with dysphoria, unaccepting families, mental illness etc. Itâs hard and people make silly posts to try and make things a little less grim.
Iâm really proud of the truscum community and how itâs developed. There are bad apples and people indistinguishable from anti-truscum. But those are the minority. Most of us are kind people fighting a battle together.
I canât even explain how much of a massive difference truscum have made to my life.
The thing is, I feel a lot of the community anymore is more concerned with being capital-R Right and arguing with brick walls, because hey, itâs what the tumblr platform does to ideologies.
It makes me think back to the renaissance of people calling themselves âsex bearsâ- yeah, it lightens the mood, but it rubs me the wrong way because itâs kind of leaving the point behind in order to be irreverent and quirky.
Iâm not saying there are truscum on the level of kat, because thatâs just a trainwreck, but it feels like the community is both skewing younger and dissolving as any kind of front we can call organized. There are people who agree with truscum ideas (if we can call one core belief âideasâ in the plural) who donât run blogs dedicated to it, so itâs harder to say we monitor literally everyone; the people who run distinct truscum blogs are a distinct minority.
(Also, general-not-specific-you can self police our spaces all you want, but bad eggs who believe the same thing we do are still bad eggs who believe the same thing we do who will represent us regardless of how much we excommunicate them from whatever we call our ill organized âcommunityâ.)
Hey there, leader of the whole âsex bearâ thing. You do know that was a joke, right? In a chatroom that I created we were discussing the negative connotations that come with being called âtrue scumâ, so I came up with a dumb name in reference to Parks and Rec to make people laugh. It caught on outside the chatroom, but again, is a playful joke. The name âsex bearâ is just as stupid as being called âtrue scumâ and thatâs kind of the point of itâ to point out that being called a name because we have an ideology thats generally not accepted by tumblr is stupid and hurtful, to some.
Being a truscum/transmedicalist isnât all business and we donât have to act like stoic assholes all the time hellbent on educating everyone. Thatâll just make us look worse than we already do. Weâre a community of people with a similar ideology, and I see no harm in making things lighthearted once in a while.
Yeah, Iâm aware it was a joke. Iâm not sure how anyone could read it as anything else. The problem isnât that I think people arenât going to take us seriously if they see us using the name sex bears; itâs about taking ourselves seriously. When you take that joke into the open, it stops being a joke, and you become the joke.
Why does truscum mean anything more than an opinion and educating people? Literally, what is the point of building these grandiose ideas of community and ânot trying to look too seriousâ when the only thing that unites us is one idea, when our opinions on literally everything else - from otherkin to feminism to preferred tea sweetener - can be different?
If you want to look like you donât take yourself so seriously all the time, then do things unrelated to talking about gender once in a while.
What is the point of taking yourself seriously all the time? Who cares if people take us seriously? If you donât like the label sex bear, donât use it. I have not seen one person take me less seriously because I jokingly call myself a âsex bearâ. I havenât ever seen that come up in a debate. If Iâm being honest? If my opinions are taken less seriously because some friends and I decide to call ourselves a funny name then thatâs someone elseâs problem, not mine. I am intelligent and I know what I am talking about, being lighthearted doesnât change that.
If you do not want to be apart of the community because you feel that it means nothing more to you than an opinion, thatâs cool! No oneâs telling you to include yourself in it. But if other people want it to be a community and enjoy it being that way, then let them do so and donât act like theyâre lesser than or like theyâre less mature.
"Who cares if nobody takes us seriously"? Really?
I already said it wasn't about anyone else taking us seriously. It's about taking ourselves seriously.
There is no organized community of truscum; it's a collection of people with one uniting belief. I can't leave that.
Real talk though
95% of the truscum community is shit. Youâre just the other side dressed up in different clothes and youâre more interested in playing back and forth she said-he said-volcanoself said politics, making pithy âyour fave is truscumâ posts, blaming feminists for your problems, and claiming how bad youâre being treated by kids on the internet to make any kind of real change or name any real effort to educate people.
Youâre indistinguishable from the opposition and yâall need to get your acts together.
I disagree I think the majority of truscum try their best to educate people. I do think more people should be making changes in meatspace. Starting support groups etc. Although an awful lot of truscum have fought within trans groups and been burned by those groups so I can see the hesitation.
I do think our way of dealing with conflict and the resources we make and our general demeanour is way better than anti-truscum. Our politics and attitudes are polar opposites.
The âyour fave is truscumâ and posts like that are honestly just people trying to lighten the mood. We are shit on by the wider community, we are sent horrible shit, we are treated like garbage, never mind having to deal with dysphoria, unaccepting families, mental illness etc. Itâs hard and people make silly posts to try and make things a little less grim.
Iâm really proud of the truscum community and how itâs developed. There are bad apples and people indistinguishable from anti-truscum. But those are the minority. Most of us are kind people fighting a battle together.
I canât even explain how much of a massive difference truscum have made to my life.
The thing is, I feel a lot of the community anymore is more concerned with being capital-R Right and arguing with brick walls, because hey, itâs what the tumblr platform does to ideologies.
It makes me think back to the renaissance of people calling themselves âsex bearsâ- yeah, it lightens the mood, but it rubs me the wrong way because itâs kind of leaving the point behind in order to be irreverent and quirky.
Iâm not saying there are truscum on the level of kat, because thatâs just a trainwreck, but it feels like the community is both skewing younger and dissolving as any kind of front we can call organized. There are people who agree with truscum ideas (if we can call one core belief âideasâ in the plural) who donât run blogs dedicated to it, so itâs harder to say we monitor literally everyone; the people who run distinct truscum blogs are a distinct minority.
(Also, general-not-specific-you can self police our spaces all you want, but bad eggs who believe the same thing we do are still bad eggs who believe the same thing we do who will represent us regardless of how much we excommunicate them from whatever we call our ill organized âcommunityâ.)
I just talk to everyone, most of them are brick walls, 9 times out of 10, anti-truscum are brick walls. Itâs not our fault. I donât really understand that itâs an issue that weâre concerned about being right? Like if we didnât think we were right, we wouldnât be doing what weâre doing.
The sex bears thing was a group of like five friends who were doing it for teh lulz. I donât really see an issue with people doing silly, fun things. Things canât be dedicated to truscum stuff all the time. Truscum stuff is hard, uncompromising work.
Tumblr as a website is mostly young teens, itâs not surprising that more young people are becoming truscum. In general, weâre all really young. I donât know a single truscum over 30. Weâre not an organized group, itâs impossible to have one on Tumblr. Weâre a community with a shared, core ideology.
Yeah, bad eggs are going to continue being rotten but all we can do is call them on it. We can do fuck all else.
It's about being capital-r Right more than being right; it's performing for a crowd.
If being active truscum is hard, then stop doing it. Take a break. There's a reason I don't post here as often anymore, and it's because I decided the heightened anxiety of dealing with stupid people wasn't worth the positive aspects of screaming into a void, which is basically all a lot of us are doing on tumblr.
I know we can't do much else, and I'm but saying it's bad that truscum self-police more; I'm just getting tired of it being touted as a defense against criticism of the community.
Real talk though
95% of the truscum community is shit. Youâre just the other side dressed up in different clothes and youâre more interested in playing back and forth she said-he said-volcanoself said politics, making pithy âyour fave is truscumâ posts, blaming feminists for your problems, and claiming how bad youâre being treated by kids on the internet to make any kind of real change or name any real effort to educate people.
Youâre indistinguishable from the opposition and yâall need to get your acts together.
I disagree I think the majority of truscum try their best to educate people. I do think more people should be making changes in meatspace. Starting support groups etc. Although an awful lot of truscum have fought within trans groups and been burned by those groups so I can see the hesitation.
I do think our way of dealing with conflict and the resources we make and our general demeanour is way better than anti-truscum. Our politics and attitudes are polar opposites.
The âyour fave is truscumâ and posts like that are honestly just people trying to lighten the mood. We are shit on by the wider community, we are sent horrible shit, we are treated like garbage, never mind having to deal with dysphoria, unaccepting families, mental illness etc. Itâs hard and people make silly posts to try and make things a little less grim.
Iâm really proud of the truscum community and how itâs developed. There are bad apples and people indistinguishable from anti-truscum. But those are the minority. Most of us are kind people fighting a battle together.
I canât even explain how much of a massive difference truscum have made to my life.
The thing is, I feel a lot of the community anymore is more concerned with being capital-R Right and arguing with brick walls, because hey, itâs what the tumblr platform does to ideologies.
It makes me think back to the renaissance of people calling themselves âsex bearsâ- yeah, it lightens the mood, but it rubs me the wrong way because itâs kind of leaving the point behind in order to be irreverent and quirky.
Iâm not saying there are truscum on the level of kat, because thatâs just a trainwreck, but it feels like the community is both skewing younger and dissolving as any kind of front we can call organized. There are people who agree with truscum ideas (if we can call one core belief âideasâ in the plural) who donât run blogs dedicated to it, so itâs harder to say we monitor literally everyone; the people who run distinct truscum blogs are a distinct minority.
(Also, general-not-specific-you can self police our spaces all you want, but bad eggs who believe the same thing we do are still bad eggs who believe the same thing we do who will represent us regardless of how much we excommunicate them from whatever we call our ill organized âcommunityâ.)
Hey there, leader of the whole âsex bearâ thing. You do know that was a joke, right? In a chatroom that I created we were discussing the negative connotations that come with being called âtrue scumâ, so I came up with a dumb name in reference to Parks and Rec to make people laugh. It caught on outside the chatroom, but again, is a playful joke. The name âsex bearâ is just as stupid as being called âtrue scumâ and thatâs kind of the point of itâ to point out that being called a name because we have an ideology thats generally not accepted by tumblr is stupid and hurtful, to some.
Being a truscum/transmedicalist isnât all business and we donât have to act like stoic assholes all the time hellbent on educating everyone. Thatâll just make us look worse than we already do. Weâre a community of people with a similar ideology, and I see no harm in making things lighthearted once in a while.
Yeah, I'm aware it was a joke. I'm not sure how anyone could read it as anything else. The problem isn't that I think people aren't going to take us seriously if they see us using the name sex bears; it's about taking ourselves seriously. When you take that joke into the open, it stops being a joke, and you become the joke.
Why does truscum mean anything more than an opinion and educating people? Literally, what is the point of building these grandiose ideas of community and "not trying to look too serious" when the only thing that unites us is one idea, when our opinions on literally everything else - from otherkin to feminism to preferred tea sweetener - can be different?
If you want to look like you don't take yourself so seriously all the time, then do things unrelated to talking about gender once in a while.
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Real talk though
95% of the truscum community is shit. Youâre just the other side dressed up in different clothes and youâre more interested in playing back and forth she said-he said-volcanoself said politics, making pithy âyour fave is truscumâ posts, blaming feminists for your problems, and claiming how bad youâre being treated by kids on the internet to make any kind of real change or name any real effort to educate people.
Youâre indistinguishable from the opposition and yâall need to get your acts together.
I disagree I think the majority of truscum try their best to educate people. I do think more people should be making changes in meatspace. Starting support groups etc. Although an awful lot of truscum have fought within trans groups and been burned by those groups so I can see the hesitation.
I do think our way of dealing with conflict and the resources we make and our general demeanour is way better than anti-truscum. Our politics and attitudes are polar opposites.
The âyour fave is truscumâ and posts like that are honestly just people trying to lighten the mood. We are shit on by the wider community, we are sent horrible shit, we are treated like garbage, never mind having to deal with dysphoria, unaccepting families, mental illness etc. Itâs hard and people make silly posts to try and make things a little less grim.
Iâm really proud of the truscum community and how itâs developed. There are bad apples and people indistinguishable from anti-truscum. But those are the minority. Most of us are kind people fighting a battle together.
I canât even explain how much of a massive difference truscum have made to my life.
There are problems in the truscum community (itâs not always easy to pinpoint but what Iâve observed tends to be similar to the ones in the anti-sjw community: rudeness, making fun of irrelevant things like someoneâs age, falling for obvious trolls, black&white mentality tho less so than anti-sjws, disregarding different experiences, weird idolization of doctors tho then again the gatekeeping in the US is apparently nonexistant and a lot of truscum are from the US so maybe they just didnât have to deal with the same level of shit from shrinks as people from other countries).
However, truscum are a lot less tolerant of bullshit such as doxxing and death threats and known abusers in the community than baeddels and tucutes. People get called out when it comes to the âreally bad stuffâ.Â
And a lot of what is said about truscum is bullshit and generalization. The majority of truscum donât disregard nonbinary trans people as ânot really transâ or âactually male or femaleâ. The whole thing about the asterisk in âtrans*â being created by truscum is utterly ridiculous given how the âold schoolâ truscum have always been vehemently against the asterisk being there. Most truscum are non-heterosexual and a lot are gender-noncomforming, so the whole âmanly het dudebroâ stereotype is ridiculously inaccurate, also because there are truscum trans women and truscum nonbinaries.Â
Yes ânot all truscumâ does not mean âno truscum does shitty thingsâ, but overall the majority might be on the ârudeâ side but is definitely not in the âdownright hateful and harmfulâ side.
The rudeness, black and white thinking, judgmental and immature behavior, US centricism, etc, ARE the problems, because when we bring up death threats, weâre pointing at the loudest and saying âeveryone who disagrees with us is like thatâ. Donât get me wrong, I disagree with all of them, but just because they have more loud idiots doesnât mean that everyone who disagrees with us is a flag waving tucute. This isnât about truscum vs tucutes based on who runs a blog with what label. Itâs about what people believe about gender and how they behave.
Iâve been a member of the truscum community, low key, since 2012, and active since 2013; I know that a lot of what gets said about us isnât true. Please donât assume that because I donât agree with the way the community is acting is entirely because Iâm uneducated about what the community is like and just believe what Iâm told by tumblr posts.
Iâm not comparing us to the loudest fire stokers on the other side.Iâm comparing us to the lower key immature, black-and-white, Iâm Right Youâre Wrong Neener Neener Neener masses that make up most of their side, and a lot of ours. Of course if you compare a huge diverse group to a select number of loud wackos, we'll look better in the comparison.
Real talk though
95% of the truscum community is shit. Youâre just the other side dressed up in different clothes and youâre more interested in playing back and forth she said-he said-volcanoself said politics, making pithy âyour fave is truscumâ posts, blaming feminists for your problems, and claiming how bad youâre being treated by kids on the internet to make any kind of real change or name any real effort to educate people.
Youâre indistinguishable from the opposition and yâall need to get your acts together.
I disagree I think the majority of truscum try their best to educate people. I do think more people should be making changes in meatspace. Starting support groups etc. Although an awful lot of truscum have fought within trans groups and been burned by those groups so I can see the hesitation.
I do think our way of dealing with conflict and the resources we make and our general demeanour is way better than anti-truscum. Our politics and attitudes are polar opposites.
The âyour fave is truscumâ and posts like that are honestly just people trying to lighten the mood. We are shit on by the wider community, we are sent horrible shit, we are treated like garbage, never mind having to deal with dysphoria, unaccepting families, mental illness etc. Itâs hard and people make silly posts to try and make things a little less grim.
Iâm really proud of the truscum community and how itâs developed. There are bad apples and people indistinguishable from anti-truscum. But those are the minority. Most of us are kind people fighting a battle together.
I canât even explain how much of a massive difference truscum have made to my life.
The thing is, I feel a lot of the community anymore is more concerned with being capital-R Right and arguing with brick walls, because hey, it's what the tumblr platform does to ideologies.
It makes me think back to the renaissance of people calling themselves "sex bears"- yeah, it lightens the mood, but it rubs me the wrong way because it's kind of leaving the point behind in order to be irreverent and quirky.
I'm not saying there are truscum on the level of kat, because that's just a trainwreck, but it feels like the community is both skewing younger and dissolving as any kind of front we can call organized. There are people who agree with truscum ideas (if we can call one core belief "ideas" in the plural) who don't run blogs dedicated to it, so it's harder to say we monitor literally everyone; the people who run distinct truscum blogs are a distinct minority.
(Also, general-not-specific-you can self police our spaces all you want, but bad eggs who believe the same thing we do are still bad eggs who believe the same thing we do who will represent us regardless of how much we excommunicate them from whatever we call our ill organized 'community'.)
Real talk though
95% of the truscum community is shit. You're just the other side dressed up in different clothes and you're more interested in playing back and forth she said-he said-volcanoself said politics, making pithy "your fave is truscum" posts, blaming feminists for your problems, and claiming how bad you're being treated by kids on the internet to make any kind of real change or name any real effort to educate people. You're indistinguishable from the opposition and y'all need to get your acts together.
so weird how much the âqueerâ community on here hates gay men, lesbians, and trans people. people always make jokes about gay men having it easy and not being Queer enough, and always complain about those damn cisbians being too exclusive, and send hate to trans medicalists calling them truscum and etc. you all complain about cishets but i get the feeling that most of u⌠ARE cishetsâŚâŚ. ????
there are people who straight up arent attracted to women
as in âbeing a girl is a complete deal-breaking turnoffâ
stop fucking acting like women are these radiant goddesses who everyone must be attracted to, ie implying that no girl is âthat straightâ or no man is âthat gayâ
stop acting like people attracted solely to men are making the âwrong choiceâ
and âeveryoneâs a little bit biâ rhetoric has the habit of turning really âguilt you into sleeping with meâ and âit can theoretically turn you on so you want itâ ie rapey. knock it the fuck off
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"Abolish the concept of passing!"
Look, I know you want everyone to have an undercut and three lip rings and green eyeliner, but whether you like it or not, passing is something that can help alleviate dysphoria in trans people and should not ever be shamed. A trans person trying to pass isnât upholding gender roles and enforcing the binaryâtheyâre putting their comfort and mental health first. Quit shaming that.
ok so based on your misuse of words such as delusional in the past, i doubt youll be very open to this. but do you realize that some otherkin are mentally ill and their kinness is a facet of their mentally ill identity? like for me, my kintype ties in very closely to my dissociative symptoms and it's also a coping mechanism for me and invalidating that is p ableist actually. that doesnt apply to all otherkin but like, i just dont get how being kin is negative or harmful.
it is fine to play make believe or roleplay sometimes, but being mentally ill isnât a get out of jail free card for every delusional or stupid thing you want to do. ive never seen anywhere that drifting away from reality and thinking that you are actually an animal or whatever as an appropriate treatment for mental illness.
and lol im not the kind of person who gets on my knees and starts begging for apologies the first time someone mentions i am ableist, you are talking with the wrong person here buddy
