anonymous said:

whats wrong with truscum?

transtoons answered:

Quite a few things. Historically, self-ID’d truscum/”true transsexuals” have:


	- Denied/disrespected nonbinary identities (though I have come across some self-ID’d truscum nonbinary people)

	- Policed the genders of other people based on constructed gender roles (e.g. “You can’t enjoy sewing if you’re a man” or “You must wear makeup to be a woman”). These included sexual orientation as well in the past. More on how these “standards” have changed in a bit.

	- Bullied young trans people who are just figuring things out, which can be absolutely devastating in an already tumultuous time

	- Spread false information about the medical aspects of transitioning, typically to scare others who are considering transitioning

	- Blamed the testosterone shortage on DAFAB nonbinary people who are taking it, an outright lie

	- Set arbitrary “standards” for being trans—they recently considered femme trans men or butch trans women to be “not actual men/women.” These standards have changed to become “easier” over the years (most recently it’s that you must have dysphoria to be trans and seem to no longer propagate gender-essentialist ideas), which essentially means they were meaningless in the first place. (My personal beliefs are that dysphoria is fluid in the first place and can change based on context/the individual in question; it doesn’t always manifest itself in specific ways and can sometimes be difficult to describe. Trouble sleeping or paying attention, for instance, can be due to dysphoria BUT it might be because of something else. There’s no such thing as a “kilodysphoreter” to empirically measure how dysphoric someone may or may not be feeling, so it’s meaningless to say that someone “must” be dysphoric.)

	- Propagated racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. beliefs (denying the existence of NB identities is inherently racist as these gender IDs are frequently culturally significant to various cultures; I have also seen trans male truscum claim that sexism isn’t real/a big deal)

	- Essentially tolerated/accepted claims of noted TERFs like Janice Raymond and her ilk.

	- Claimed that inclusive trans-activism that isn’t gender-essentialist has set back the movement, when typically these folks don’t do *anything* as far as trans-activism goes.

I’m sure I’m missing some stuff that ought to be mentioned, and these are based on mine and a few others’ observations of truscum blogs. Hope that sheds some light on your question, anon. That’s all that’ll be said on the matter here; I’m not keen on flooding anyone’s dashes with truscum-related asks.