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] They may also exclude non-binary people.[7] There are divides and debates among transmedicalists on the exact definition of who counts as transgender.[8]
Transmedicalists are sometimes referred to as truscum,[2][9] a term coined on Tumblr meaning "true transsexual scum" which they have since reappropriated.[10][11] Those who believe that gender dysphoria is not required to be transgender are sometimes called tucute, meaning "too cute to be cisgender".[11] Transmedicalists dismiss transgender people they consider inauthentic as transtrenders.[12]
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]
See also
- Causes of gender incongruence
- Gender essentialism
- Medicalisation of sexuality
- Neurosexism
- Psychic determinism
- Social construction of gender
- Respectability politics
- The Transsexual Phenomenon
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