Transmedicalism is the belief that beingtransgender is primarily a medical issue marked bygender dysphoria and treated viamedical transition (i.e.,hormone therapy orsex reassignment surgery).[1][2][3] Transmedicalists (ortransmeds)[4] believe trans people who do not experience dysphoria or desire medical assistance are not authentically transgender, and label themtranstrenders.[2][5][6] They may also excludenon-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 astruscum,[2][9] a term coined onTumblr meaning "truetranssexual scum" which they have sincereappropriated.[10][11] Those who believe that gender dysphoria is not required to be transgender are sometimes calledtucute, meaning "too cute to becisgender".[11] Transmedicalists dismiss transgender people they consider inauthentic astranstrenders.[12]
^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.S2CID237909648. RetrievedJuly 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.
^Williams, Rachel Anne (2019).Transgressive: A Trans Woman On Gender, Feminism, and Politics.Jessica Kingsley Publishers. p. 129.ISBN978-1785926471.[...] trans medicalists themselves have self-consciouslyreappropriated the term 'truscum' to describe their position.
^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.S2CID237909648. RetrievedJuly 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.
