Transmedicalism

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Transmedicalism is the belief that being transgender is primarily a medical issue marked by gender dysphoria and treated via medical transition (i.e., hormone therapy or sex reassignment surgery). [1] [2] [3] Transmedicalists (or transmeds) [4] believe trans people who do not experience dysphoria or desire medical assistance are not authentically transgender, and label them transtrenders . [2] [5] [6] [7] They may also exclude non-binary people. [8] There are divides and debates among transmedicalists on the exact definition of who counts as transgender. [9]

Transmedicalists are sometimes referred to as truscum, [2] [10] a term coined on Tumblr meaning "true transsexual scum" which they have since reappropriated. [11] [12] Those who believe that gender dysphoria is not required to be transgender are sometimes called tucute , meaning "too cute to be cisgender". [12] Transmedicalists dismiss transgender people they consider inauthentic as

Some critics view transmedicalism akin to the medical model of disability in that it medicalizes an attribute that contains both medical and social components. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ Vincent, Ben (2018). Transgender Health: A Practitioner's Guide to Binary and Non-Binary Trans Patient Care. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. pp. 126–127. ISBN   978-1785922015.
  2. 1 2 3 Fontaine, Andie (August 2, 2019). "The New Frontier: Trans Rights In Iceland". The Reykjavík Grapevine . Retrieved January 7, 2020.
  3. ↑ Zhang, Christopher M. (August 7, 2019). "Biopolitical and Necropolitical Constructions of the Incarcerated Trans Body". Columbia Journal of Gender and Law . 37 (2): 259. doi:10.7916/cjgl.v37i2.2787 . Retrieved March 29, 2021.
  4. ↑ Chuanromanee, Tya; Metoyer, Ronald (May 6, 2021). Transgender People's Technology Needs to Support Health and Transition . Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Yokohama, Japan: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1–13. doi:10.1145/3411764.3445276. ISBN   978-1-4503-8096-6.
  5. ↑ Earl, Jessie (October 21, 2019). "What Does the ContraPoints Controversy Say About the Way We Criticize?". Pride.com . Retrieved January 7, 2020.
  6. ↑ Konnelly, Lex (June 4, 2021). "Both, and: Transmedicalism and resistance in non-binary narratives of gender-affirming care" (PDF). Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics. 43 (1). doi: 10.33137/twpl.v43i1.35968 . S2CID   237909648 . Retrieved July 19, 2021. Often referred to in short, by themselves and others, as simply transmedicalists (and sometimes as truscum or transfundamentalists), those who subscribe to this view ratify medical authority in regulating transgender experience, insisting that deviating from the established medical model undermines public acceptance of trans communities and trivializes 'authentic' transexperiences. They criticize those deemed "transtrenders," individuals who 'inauthentically' claim to be transgender in the absence of medicalized criteria, particularly gender dysphoria.
  7. ↑ Konnelly, Lex (June 4, 2021). "Both, and: Transmedicalism and resistance in non-binary narratives of gender-affirming care" (PDF). Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics. 43 (1). doi: 10.33137/twpl.v43i1.35968 . S2CID   237909648 . Retrieved July 19, 2021. Often referred to in short, by themselves and others, as simply transmedicalists (and sometimes as truscum or transfundamentalists), those who subscribe to this view ratify medical authority in regulating transgender experience, insisting that deviating from the established medical model undermines public acceptance of trans communities and trivializes 'authentic' transexperiences. They criticize those deemed "transtrenders," individuals who 'inauthentically' claim to be transgender in the absence of medicalized criteria, particularly gender dysphoria.
  8. ↑ Ben, Vincent (July 2, 2020). Non-Binary Genders: Navigating Communities, Identities, and Healthcare. Policy Press. ISBN   978-1-4473-5194-8 – via Google Books.
  9. ↑ Jacobsen, Kai; Devor, Aaron; Hodge, Edwin (August 16, 2021). "Who Counts as Trans? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Trans Tumblr Posts". Journal of Communication Inquiry . 46 (1): 60–81. doi: 10.1177/01968599211040835 . hdl: 1828/14709 .
  10. ↑ Williams, Rachel Anne (2019). Transgressive: A Trans Woman On Gender, Feminism, and Politics. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. p. 129. ISBN   978-1785926471. [...] trans medicalists themselves have self-consciously reappropriated the term 'truscum' to describe their position.
  11. ↑ Wijnants, Alexander (Spring 2013). "Identity of Neurology Social Media and the Politicization versus Medicalization of Trans People" (PDF). Synaesthesia. Archived from the original (PDF) on Sep 10, 2015.
  12. 1 2 Ballard, Jason Robert (March 26, 2019). "Identifying as Truscum is a Disservice to Yourself". FTM Magazine . Archived from the original on August 11, 2020. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  13. ↑ Baril, Alexandre (November 2015). "Transness as Debility: Rethinking Intersections between Trans and Disabled Embodiments" . Feminist Review . 111 (1): 59–74. doi:10.1057/fr.2015.21. ISSN   0141-7789. S2CID   146887003 . Retrieved May 6, 2022.
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