#truscum are scum

[foxfairy06]

#anti inclus #anti inclusionist #exclusionist #gravity knife gay #battleaxe bi #exclus #longsword lesbian #transmed #transmed safe #esai lgbt #true scum #truescum #truscum safe #truscum #anti mogai #mogai cringe

[404shcats]

If you are trans and you have dysphoria please interact with this.

So recently I’ve been more open about being non-dysphoric online and I’ve received some mixed responses from people. Most are just the standard “you’re making a mistake” and “you’re confused” responses. However I’ve seen a couple responses from people (who I’m sure are doing it in good faith) saying something along the lines of “you’re so lucky that you’re non-dysphoric” or “I wish I was non-dysphoric”, my problem with this is being non-dysphoric isn’t easy in the larger trans community. (I can only speak for myself and my own experiences with this) Even if I ignore all the disrespect and hatred I get from other trans people, it’s so lonely to be non-dysphoric, there’s barely any other non-dysphoric people out there and most trans spaces aren’t safe for non-dysphoric people. To put it simply “you’re so lucky you’re non-dysphoric” is a lot like saying “you’re so lucky you’re aromantic”, while there are definitely benefits to both of them, saying that sort of takes away from the hardships that people go through for being aromantic/non-dysphoric. If you’re trans and you have dysphoria please interact with this, I want dysphoric trans people to know that they shouldn’t say this so they don’t make this mistake in the future. /gen

#transgender #trans #non dysphoric #please reblog #/nm just wanted people to know #ignore how much I been posting about being non dysphoric im just on that pissing off truscums grindset /hj #gender dysphoria #dysphoric #I’ll probably make another post late about xenic people who post about hating tr*scums but don’t support non-dysphorics

[fairyreaper22345]

this blogger supports trans people

#i'm not messing about. if ur a terf/truscum/transmed/radfem/any of that shit #if u think trans people are somehow dangerous and allowing them to exist in their own way is somehow threatening #genuinely i want u off my blog. lmk i'll block u. i think u are the scum of the earth

[real-life-creature-feature]

oh yea should make this clear but gender critical transmed/truscum or whatever you shitlords decide to call yourselves down the road get the fuck out of here

#god damnit flynn #its just transphobia with different steps #tho tbf truscum is a good name to call those types cause you fucks are sure scum alright

[vaspider]

Transmedicalism is a plague upon all trans people and it must be stopped.

No, really.

Transmedicalism damages the rights and transitions of all trans people, even those who feel protected by it, and its adherents within the trans community do active damage to every single trans person by continuing to push it.

What is transmedicalism?

Transmedicalism is a belief founded upon the pathologizing white cisgender view of transgender/transsexual* existence.

Transmedicalists believe one or more of the following statements:

Without the experience of the medical phenomenon known as gender dysphoria, a person is not "truly transgender."

If one does not wish to medically transition, or to "fully medically transition", including hormone replacement therapy, name changes, and one or more surgeries, that person is not "truly transgender."

Non-binary identities are not transgender identities.

Cultural identities (such as two-spirit, tumtum, and others) are not transgender identities.

Transmedicalists are also known as transmeds or "truscum," a neologism which means "true transsexual scum." There is an unfortunate amount of overlap between the transmed community and the radfem community, with many transmeds believing that they are not "truly" their proper gender and accepting a second-class status within their gender.

So, starting from the understanding that transmedicalism as it is currently defined requires the belief in at least one of the above statements, why is being a transmed harmful even to people who follow the binary paths laid out by transmedicalism's most ardent adherents?

Transmedicalism allows cisgender doctors to define our experience.

Okay, let me start by saying that I understand that under the current health care system in the United States, a diagnosis is required in order for insurance to pay for medication and/or treatments, rather than treating medical interventions as "optional" or "cosmetic." This is a separate issue, to my mind, to seeing the transmedicalist line carried by the community end. Yes, the medical system is set up currently to see us fail; that doesn't mean that we need to carry that water for them.

The current medical view of transgender life is predicated upon the idea that our existence is based in pain. Basically, goes the cis thinking, every trans person would be cisgender if only we could manage it, but we just can't, because it's too painful. It's not that we're happier when our gender identities are confirmed, it's not that we live fuller and more complete lives, and definitely no one would ever choose our lives, because being trans is a shitty, hard life compared to being cis. Transition is a sort of "lifestyle of last resort."

Trans people are not "failed cisgender people", and that is the mindset which transmedicalism adopts. We are not one of many ways in which humanity expresses itself and what we are isn't a normal and natural way of being, says transmedicalism, but an aberrant way of being whose existence can only be tolerated simply because there is no other choice for us.

Uprooting the transmedicalist mindset means uprooting the mindset that we define ourselves by pain and allowing our community to define itself instead by the whole of our experience, including our pain, yes, but also including our joy. Trans liberation means the opportunity for kids to be raised without fear or shame about their gender, and what then? If we are ever to achieve true trans liberation, we cannot define ourselves solely by our pain, because that would mean that if we remove the societal sources of our pain, trans people would cease to meaningfully exist in that definition.

Transmedicalism as a philosophy therefore creates a trap which means trans existence will always be defined by its pain. And that? Sucks.

Transmedicalism means imposing a harmful "single true path" on all trans people.

If you've been around the trans community for more than 5 seconds, you know that there are uncountable different trans experiences. Transmedicalism, however, reinforces and underlines the "born this way" and "always knew" narratives, excluding those of us who didn't "always know" and those of us with fluid, complicated, or non-binary experiences. This is incredibly screwed up, especially for those of us who grew up before the advent of the modern internet, grew up in extremely conservative households, or simply changed or developed as we grew. Transmedicalism views a trans person as a static thing, one who "always knew" and "always suffered" from gender dysphoria, and that mindset forces a lot of us to lie or tell half-truths in order to receive support or medical treatment.

(read the entire thread, please.)

Even for those of us with binary trans experiences, pushing an idea that one must follow a single path which includes a set number of medical interventions means that a trans person may feel that they must receive these medical interventions -- whether or not they want them -- to be "really trans" or accepted by the community. To be clear, this should not be taken as me saying that the trans community is the source of this mindset or this belief: transmedicalism comes from outside the trans community, imposed upon us by the transphobic medical establishment and transphobic cisgender society, who view themselves as the arbiters of who is 'really trans' or not. If fault is to be laid at the feet of anyone for trans individuals who feel that they must receive medical intervention to be viewed as 'really trans', it must be laid at the feet of medical establishments, individual doctors, school systems, governments and other cisgender authorities who push this medical-intervention-necessary-or-else-not-trans model.

The decision on the appropriateness of any given medical intervention should be a decision made between an individual person, their parents if underage, and their doctor(s), and as with all other questions of bodily autonomy, should not be interfered with by governments, UK Twitter users with 10 accounts and the suffragette flag in their handle, or the writers of derivative wizard-school books.

Like, really, these standards are set up in order to diminish us and to "discourage people" from coming out as trans -- the harder it is to be 'really trans,' goes the thinking, the fewer of us will exist. It is an outright trans-exterminatory model which we really need to stop buying into as a community.

Transmedicalism as a philosophy pushes medical intervention which may not be appropriate or safe for a given individual.

Whether it's someone with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome for whom top surgery is not advisable, someone in a conservative area who can't live 'out' full-time and can't start hormone therapy, or someone who just isn't ready yet for whatever reason, transmedicalism imposes a script on trans people, and that one-size-fits-all approach simply isn't appropriate for anyone.

Let me repeat: nothing I say is or should be misconstrued as an argument for laws restricting transition by age, for interference in transition by outside forces, or any other such bullshit.

Likewise, even if we're just talking about binary trans people, a given intervention may not be appropriate or desired by a particular person. Transmedicalism pushes all manner of surgeries and medications, pushes the idea that if you don't do this, you're not trans, and that's not only simply not true but diametrically opposed to the truth of trans liberation. Trans liberation means the ability to experiment with gender and presentation, to begin or desist transition without fear, shame, or reprisal from within or without the community, and to recognize and focus on our joy as the central piece of our experience.

When you add in non-binary, genderfluid, and culturally-gendered people to the equation, it becomes glaringly obvious that a one-size-fits-all approach simply doesn't work.

Transmedicalism pushes the idea that desistence is a sign of not being "truly trans," or that transition was a "mistake" rather than a step along the way toward self-understanding.

I've seen this more than once -- someone transitions to a binary gender and then realizes that they're actually non-binary, or begins transition and then finds that they're in an unsafe situation for transition. (The majority of desisters/detransitioners stop transition due to lack of support, and retransition when they have better support or are able to move to a friendlier/safer situation.) Not only then do they have to deal with the incredibly complicated business of retransitioning, they have to then deal with people calling them a 'faker' or 'not really trans' or whatever else. It's not too different from the experiences of people who come out as gay or lesbian only later to realize that they're bisexual or pansexual, to be honest, with the same sort of social backlash.

We've got enough on our plates when it comes to dealing with our lives as trans people without trying to push the idea that desistence means you "were never trans" or "aren't truly trans." We don't need to do that to ourselves, to each other, or to someone who truly did experiment with gender and realize they were transgender. Trans liberation means the ability to experiment with gender is available to everyone, including those who later determine themselves to be cisgender.

Transmedicalism can be really tempting to trans people who do not have a lot of social support or who do not have contact with other, especially older, trans people -- look, it's scientific! look, you can't deny me this because otherwise I will die! -- and for a lot of binary trans people, following that single path of stereotypical medical interventions will not only provide relief from gender dysphoria but serve to give gender euphoria a wonderful garden in which to blossom. However, as a view of the community, it's absolute poison.

What is right for you need not be right for me: we understand this when it comes to other choices that people make with their bodies as a core tenet of feminist philosophy. One person's decision to have an abortion does not mean another person's decision to carry an unintended pregnancy to term is the 'wrong decision' and vice versa. We understand that a woman is not defined by motherhood or by carrying a child; we understand that a child-free life does not reflect poorly on those who choose to carry a child or to become a mother in another fashion. We understand that cis women who are unable to or do not want to carry children are not "unwomen," and that a single life path determined by natal biology and circumstance, imposed on women by the machinery of the cishetalloperipatriarchy, makes no sense. We understand that we do not require the approval of professionals for our plans for our body, and that we alone have -- ro should by all rights have, fuck you, Texas -- the sovereign ability to determine what we want our bodies to do.

Why, then, do we accept a philosophy within our communities which mandates a single defined path for transgender people and a single definition of transgender identity contingent upon approval from an often-hostile medical establishment which views our existence as a "life of last resort"?

Kinda bullshit, honestly.

*Sometimes viewed as outdated, the term transsexual is still used by many older trans people and has been recently reclaimed by some younger trans people. I include it in the name of greatest inclusivity of our community; there's no need for me to be exclusive while talking about how philosophies damage us.

#trans rights #trans rights are human rights #transmedicalism is bullshit #transmedicalism #transmedicalism tw #don't bother arguing in favor of transmedicalism #it's a bullshit philosophy #i will just block you byeeee

[ftmtftm]

Wait, transmedicalism and truscum used to be different things but then merged? What happened? I thought they were just two words for the same thing, but I don't know much of this sort of history.

Basically truscum, tucutes, transmeds, and trenders (because that terms relevant here too!) all meant/mean slightly different things.

Truscum = true transsexual scum - someone who deems themself to be a "real transsexual" because they have dysphoria and transitioned medically/want to transition medically and fit the medical definition of being transsexual essentially

Tucute = too cute for you - someone whose gender is "too cute" for truscum, usually someone nonbinary and/or doesn't have dysphoria/only experienced some types of dysphoria, etc. etc. etc. - Tucutes also tend to overlap with specifically neogender identities, folks who use nounself pronouns, and otherkin/fictionkin communities specfically

Transmed = someone who believes in the medical institution and medical model of gender dysphoria, as well as who believes you need gender dysphoria to be trans AND the medical aspect of transitioning is integral to their definition of gender dysphoria

Trender/transtrender = anyone seen as "faking" being trans for [x, y, z] reason - usually because they are nonbinary or non-dysphoric - but goes beyond just ""weird"" (<- used very loosely and not indicative of my own belief) genders and identities like neogenders and otherkin and gets applied to anyone deemed "not trans enough"

It's like transmedicalism is a circle that encompasses truscum and trenders are a circle that encompass tucutes.

Because they're all so similar over the years they've melded and mushed together and frankly? They still mean very different things to very different people in my experiences. They're not solid categories of individuals and even my definitions are probably wonky to some degree. They're just based on my best understanding having been part of it all myself on all sides at some point or another.

I also consider truscum/tucutes to be much more Tumblr specific because that discourse was born here in a very specific cultural context of the early-mid 2010's, whereas transmedicalism and calling people trenders is a much wider community issue that has breached into general discourse outside of just the trans community. If that makes sense?

#asks #anon #transmedicalism #anti transmedicalism #anti transmed

[kipandkandicore]

on system terminology: traumascum

tldr: the word “traumascum” is used online by anti endos and system medicalists as a way to delegitimize endogenic systems way more often than it’s used by pro endos to put down or harm trauma-formed systems or those who don’t believe in plurality without trauma.

ah, and so we’re back… wanting to talk about something that’s been bothering us lately in syscourse and greater system spaces.

personally, our system hates the word “traumascum.” equating trauma survivors to scum is never a good look, regardless of the intentions. we understand the term to be a synonym of sysmed, similarly to how truscum is a synonym of transmed. but who actually uses this term, these days or in the past?

we spent a long time searching on tumblr, reddit, twitter, and the internet in general for instances where “traumascum” has been used. on tumblr and twitter, we searched through over two years’ worth of posts from all sorts of people using the term. on reddit, we searched through the r/plural and r/did subreddits.

and in general, we saw almost no one at all use this term to genuinely refer to system medicalists or even trauma-formed systems at all. we honestly saw almost no endogenic systems use this term whatsoever.

the overwhelming majority of instances of the term “traumascum” were by anti endos who were using it as a way to take a dig at endogenic systems. seriously, for every one instance of someone using traumascum in a derogatory way towards system medicalists, there were probably 20-30 posts with people complaining about how endogenic systems have used the term against them. we cannot emphasize enough the sheer amount of folks using traumascum as a “gotcha” for endogenic systems or their own reasoning for why they don’t support endogenic plurality.

in reality, most endogenic systems used the term in the context of “hey, this term sucks, let’s not use it.” in all the posts we witnessed, on all the social media platforms we combed through, we saw scarcely any endogenic systems use “traumascum” in any other context.

don’t believe us on this? you can search for this term on these platforms just the same as us, and you’ll come across the same posts that we saw while we were researching for this post. we’re not saying that no one has ever used the word “traumascum” in a derogatory way against trauma-formed systems. we’re just saying that moments like this are incredibly, incredibly rare.

what is vastly more common is seeing anti endos use this term to justify their hatred for endogenic systems. that’s what we saw through our searches, anyway.

idk if this post is coherent or will make much sense to anyone, but we thought it was worth sharing. maybe as a community (whether as syscoursers or as systems) we can strive towards a future where this word is dead and buried forever. until then, maybe let’s think twice before using it as a means to harm or delegitimize other systems. take care of yourselves, and thanks for your time.

#syscourse #traumascum

[natalieironside]

I feel like there's some interesting lexical drift around the word "truscum" and what a scathing insult that's supposed to be, since tragically few people are around who remember and a lotta people just don't know about the Harry Benjamin standards of care or primary and secondary transsexualism.

Basically "truscum" is short for "true transsexual scum," and "true transsexual" was a specific medical categorization back inna day, referring to the teeny tiny minority of people whom psychologists would readily recognize as needing gender-affirming care; and back in those days ["those days" extending from the early 20th century up to the 2000s] most mainstream academics were pretty much just making crap up about trans people and jumped through some truly astounding hoops to stigmatize cross-gender inclinations, so being a primary "true" transsexual (as opposed to a secondary autogynophile or transvestic fetishist) often meant being white, affluent, conventionally attractive [more important than you might think; a lot of early medical literature on trans people is both really sexist and incredibly fucking creepy], able to change housing or careers easily, able to navigate an extremely complex and arbitrary network of medical gatekeeping.

So, calling someone "True Transsexual(tm) scum" was something like calling them a collaborator and a useful idiot, a way of saying "You're a fool who thinks you're better than us just because you won the lottery."

& Like, I, ya'girl, your friendly neighborhood boring and conventional transsexual, would probably not have made the cut had I lived back in those dark days by mere dint of my being poor, fat, disabled, and a weirdo.

#i am once again asking you to read Whipping Girl

[olderthannetfic]

Imma be real these truscum/tucute posts are wild to me bc the only ppl I ever personally saw yelling about anything were truscum, who proceeded to call me and my friends tucutes even tho we were like "??? Don't call us that??? What is that wtf" and then proceeded to send us death threats, tried to doxx us, and other general fuckery because we said "hey man don't police how other people identify their gender even if you don't understand how or why". People got called nazis for making pride flags with a peace dove on it. A *dove*. It was bad. Like, really, really bad. I've always thought that it was no wonder that exclusionists were called something that sounds like "true scum" because with the way they acted towards us, they genuinely were.

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[foxfairy06]

Today on something inclusionists don't understand:

Radicals do not represent our community!

We do not believe transition is necessary to be trans, just dysphoria.

We do not believe you have to be miserable to be trans, just dysphoric.

We do not believe enban aren't real, as long as they are dysphoric.

#anti inclus #anti inclusionist #exclusionist #gravity knife gay #battleaxe bi #exclus #longsword lesbian #transmed #transmed safe #esai lgbt #true scum #truescum #truscum safe #truscum

[404shcats]

You wanna know the best thing about getting gaslit by tr*scums? They think they’re innocent and just trying to help out a confused trender, meanwhile I’m on the other side of the screen laughing my ass off because they’re one of the main reasons I identify as non-dysphoric.

#Like when I say trauma influences my identity do they think I’m talking about trauma from cis people? #it’s even funnier when they know I’m an ex-tr*scum #like they’re trying to get me back on their side or something #anti-truscum #non dysphoric #I will not be awake when this is posted cuz my dumbass decided to stay up till 5 am #it was worth it tho

[syssyadmin]

memory unlocked: thee worst roommate from hell i ever had asking me if i knew what "truscum" meant. which. considering it seems entirely incoherent, no i did not, but i also had the vague awareness that it's probably a portmanteau of something like "true-scum". and probably shouldn't be pronounced like um. "truss-cum"

[ray-does-witchcraft]

.𖥔 ݁ ˖𖤐♱𖤐.𖥔 ݁ ˖

My askbox is always open!

🎧 I'm Raven (or Rav/Ray), he/they/it, and I'm an adult. I live in the south of Brazil and speak Portuguese, English and a little Spanish (B1 intermediate, to be more specific). 🏛️ I'm a Hellenic polytheist & Luciferian (does this count as christo-pagan? I'm not sure lmao). I worship Aphrodite, Ares, Apollo, Hermes, Nemesis, Phobos & Deimos, and Lucifer. 💿 I don't have any formal education in the classics or in "proper" Hellenism! My practice is more personal and even revivalist. I'm open to answering questions, but take everything I say with a grain of salt! 🧷 I'm heavily political (I'm an anarcho-communist, in case you're wondering). It's an important subject to me, so DO NOT interact if you don't support:

Black lives matter

LGBT, especially trans rights

Woman's rights (I'm strictly pro-abortion)

Palestine

🔗And also dni if you are: racist, sexist, queerphobe (including mogai and asexuals and what not), TERF (crawl in a hole and die), thinspo/proana, tradfem, transmed/truscum, MAP, fetish blog, fandom blog (nothing against yall but i wanna keep things religious here), harry potter fan 🕸️ Other than the scum i just mentioned, everyone else is welcome! Feel free to send an ask or message if you have a question or just wanna talk <3 ☁️ Other interests of mine include: any kind of art (I'm more of a digital artist but still), writing & reading, classical literature, and some nerdier stuff like Baldur's Gate 3 and D&D.

Devotional Accounts:

Aphrodite

Apollo

Ares

Hermes

.𖥔 ݁ ˖𖤐♱𖤐.𖥔 ݁ ˖

[pupcoric]

MOGAI isn’t white.

Being a POC in this community is so difficult. Because almost everyone here is white.

White people are the center of every conversation. Even if it’s about POC lgbt issues…

White people in the MOGAI community show their privilege every day. They have the ability to argue about validity and flags while I have to watch my fellow black transfems be murdered.

It’s unfair, and aggravating, and annoying. It’s the reason I hate all discourse. No matter if you are a rad exclus or rad inclus. The ability to care about online discourse enough to talk about how bad another online group is, is a privilege.

The fact that some people believe truscum and transmeds, or tucutes and inclus are one of the biggest things setting the lgbt community back or harming young trans kids is A HUGE FUCKING PRIVILEGE.

The biggest thing setting our community back and harming young trans kids is the fact that:

• genital inspections on kids as young as 10 or 11 are being allowed just to make sure trans kids don’t play sports.

• 14 trans + nonbinary have been murdered in 2022, the majority of them being POC transfems.

• in 2022, the USA has seen a record setting amount of anti-trans bills passed.

Just to name a few.

I love the mogai community. And I’m not saying that you can’t label yourself as an inclus or whatever because I label myself a rad inclus as well. But the fact that so many people think trumeds or tucutes are the biggest issue for us is so fucking privileged. Life, especially for POC people in this community, is fucking DANGEROUS. And seeing so many white trans people sit around and argue about how a certain group is the scum of the earth is disheartening.

POC trans people are fighting for their rights to live without being murdered. And white trans people are fighting for their ten page blocklists and callout posts.

#mogai #mogai blog #anarchoqueer #queer anarchism #lgbt #lgbtq community #xenogender #―︎ text post #―︎ rant #POC #lgbt poc #queer POC

[transmascrage]

since you were asking about it, the word "truscum" came from "true transsexual scum", as they think they're the only true trans people. In the olden days Americans called them HBS-ers (Harry Benjamin Syndrome-ers), Harry Benjamin is a really transphobic guy (please look him up WITH CAUTION). "tucute" comes from "too cute to be cis" which mocks how non-dysphoric trans people are proud of their transness and didn't wish they were cis. any followers of this blog may correct me if I got it wrong!

Yeah I actually remember the "too-cute-to-be-cis" thing, I even heard that the person who coined it later admitted they weren't trans (but I heard that in transmed circles, so take it with a grain of salt).

I also remember the "true transsexual scum" thing that later became "transmedicalist".

Never heard of the HBS-ers thing though. When you say "olden days" what are you referring to, specifically?

#non/transmed experiences #ask

[dissociativediscourse]

theyre doing it to try and draw parallels between tucute and truscum and this shit even though it isnt at all comparable. i dont think they understand nor do they want to, because then theyd have to understand just how fucked up it is to equate trauma to gender identity. demiboyflux with severe childhood trauma and unsure if im a system and too scared to go into it w/my therapist due to fear reasons that im not sure i can understand

Just want to preface this with a few words— Fear of talking to a therapist is entirely normal and it’s not always easy to understand why. And it takes a lot of time and work and acceptance (and stabilization) a lot of the time to get to the point where you’re able to talk about the things that have happened to you. And that’s okay. The parts of you that hold those traumas may not be willing to tell their stories yet, and they have to come forward at their own pace. Whether you take that metaphorically or literally is up to you, but the point stands.

But, wrt the whole “traumascum” thing? It’s in such horrible taste. And it doesn’t help that I’ve repeatedly seen endos deny that it’s used at all. Like they’re omnipresent in syscourse or something. Even if the comparison made any sort of actual sense, just… What the fuck.

Traumascum?

Please, say that word in front of any regular, actual humans in real life. Say that in a support group. Say it in therapy. Say it to your traumatized friends. Say it to whoever. Just use it in public.

You’ll be the one that looks like the scum, anyone would agree.

(Not at you, anon. Also, I’m currently substance-d and my train of thought went in, like, 7 directions. My bad.)

#syscourse #TW: mentions of traumascum (word) #asks