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'''Transmedicalism''' is the idea that being [[transgender]] or [[transsexual]] is contingent upon experiencing [[gender dysphoria]] and/or requiring medical treatment to [[Transition (transgender)|transition]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Vincent|first=Ben|year=2018|title=Transgender Health: A Practitioner's Guide to Binary and Non-Binary Trans Patient Care|publisher=[[Jessica Kingsley Publishers]]|pages=126–127|isbn=978-1785922015}}</ref><ref name="earl">{{cite web|url=https://www.pride.com/firstperson/2019/10/21/what-does-contrapoints-controversy-say-about-way-we-criticize|title=What Does the ContraPoints Controversy Say About the Way We Criticize?|last=Earl|first=Jessie|date=October 21, 2019|website=[[Pride.com]]|access-date=January 7, 2020}}</ref><ref name="fontaine">{{cite web|url=https://grapevine.is/icelandic-culture/2019/08/02/the-new-frontier-trans-rights-in-iceland/|title=The New Frontier: Trans Rights In Iceland|last=Fontaine|first=Andie|date=August 2, 2019|work=[[The Reykjavík Grapevine]]|access-date=January 7, 2020}}</ref><ref name="zhang-2019">{{cite journal |last1=Zhang |first1=Christopher M. |title=Biopolitical and Necropolitical Constructions of the Incarcerated Trans Body |journal=[[Columbia Journal of Gender and Law]] |date=August 7, 2019 |volume=37 |issue=2 |page=259 | doi=10.7916/cjgl.v37i2.2787 |url=https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/cjgl/article/view/2787 |access-date=March 29, 2021}}</ref> Transmedicalists believe individuals who identify as transgender, who do not experience gender dysphoria, and have no desire to undergo a medical transition—through methods such as [[Transgender hormone therapy|hormone replacement therapy]] or [[sex reassignment surgery]]—are not genuinely transgender.<ref name="earl" /><ref name="fontaine" /> They may also exclude those who identify themselves as [[non-binary]] from the trans label.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ben|first=Vincent|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SZ3uDwAAQBAJ&q=%22the+truscum+identity+operates+a+politics+of+exclusion%22&pg=PT57|title=Non-Binary Genders: Navigating Communities, Identities, and Healthcare|date=2020-07-02|publisher=Policy Press|isbn=978-1-4473-5194-8|language=en}}</ref> Transmedicalists tend to see being transgender/transsexual as a medical condition, rather than an identity.
'''Transmedicalism''' is the idea that being [[transgender]] or [[transsexual]] is contingent upon experiencing [[gender dysphoria]] and/or requiring medical treatment to [[Transition (transgender)|transition]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Vincent|first=Ben|year=2018|title=Transgender Health: A Practitioner's Guide to Binary and Non-Binary Trans Patient Care|publisher=[[Jessica Kingsley Publishers]]|pages=126–127|isbn=978-1785922015}}</ref><ref name="earl">{{cite web|url=https://www.pride.com/firstperson/2019/10/21/what-does-contrapoints-controversy-say-about-way-we-criticize|title=What Does the ContraPoints Controversy Say About the Way We Criticize?|last=Earl|first=Jessie|date=October 21, 2019|website=[[Pride.com]]|access-date=January 7, 2020}}</ref><ref name="fontaine">{{cite web|url=https://grapevine.is/icelandic-culture/2019/08/02/the-new-frontier-trans-rights-in-iceland/|title=The New Frontier: Trans Rights In Iceland|last=Fontaine|first=Andie|date=August 2, 2019|work=[[The Reykjavík Grapevine]]|access-date=January 7, 2020}}</ref><ref name="zhang-2019">{{cite journal |last1=Zhang |first1=Christopher M. |title=Biopolitical and Necropolitical Constructions of the Incarcerated Trans Body |journal=[[Columbia Journal of Gender and Law]] |date=August 7, 2019 |volume=37 |issue=2 |page=259 | doi=10.7916/cjgl.v37i2.2787 |url=https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/cjgl/article/view/2787 |access-date=March 29, 2021}}</ref> Transmedicalists believe individuals who identify as transgender, who do not experience gender dysphoria, and have no desire to undergo a medical transition—through methods such as [[Transgender hormone therapy|hormone replacement therapy]] or [[sex reassignment surgery]]—are not genuinely transgender.<ref name="earl" /><ref name="fontaine" /> They may also exclude those who identify themselves as [[non-binary]] from the trans label.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ben|first=Vincent|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SZ3uDwAAQBAJ&q=%22the+truscum+identity+operates+a+politics+of+exclusion%22&pg=PT57|title=Non-Binary Genders: Navigating Communities, Identities, and Healthcare|date=2020-07-02|publisher=Policy Press|isbn=978-1-4473-5194-8|language=en}}</ref> Transmedicalists tend to see being transgender/transsexual as a medical condition, rather than an identity.{{cite thesis |last=Fisher |first= Jessica|date=5-7-2019 |title=Transgender Digital Embodiments: Questions of the Transgender Body in the 21st Century |type= Master of Arts|publisher= Kennesaw State University|url= https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=mast_etd}}

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Transmedicalists are sometimes referred to as '''transmeds'''<ref>{{Cite conference|last1=Chuanromanee|first1=Tya|last2=Metoyer|first2=Ronald|date=2021-05-06|title=Transgender People's Technology Needs to Support Health and Transition|url=https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445276|conference=Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems|location=Yokohama, Japan|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|pages=1–13|doi=10.1145/3411764.3445276|isbn=978-1-4503-8096-6}}</ref> and '''truscum''',<ref name="fontaine" /><ref>{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Rachel Anne|year=2019|title=Transgressive: A Trans Woman On Gender, Feminism, and Politics|publisher=[[Jessica Kingsley Publishers]]|page=129|isbn=978-1785926471|quote="[...] trans medicalists themselves have self-consciously [[reappropriated]] the term 'truscum' to describe their position."}}</ref> a term coined by a user on microblogging website [[Tumblr]], meaning ''"true [[transsexual]] scum''," which has since been reappropriated.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150910223136/http:/www.synaesthesiajournal.com/uploads/Wijnants_v1_n4.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref><ref name="ftmmag">{{cite magazine |last=Ballard |first=Jason Robert |date=March 26, 2019 |title=Identifying as Truscum is a Disservice to Yourself |url=https://www.ftmmagazine.com/identifying-as-truscum-is-a-disservice-to-yourself/ |magazine=[[FTM Magazine]] |access-date=December 29, 2020 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20200811192208/https://ftmmagazine.com/identifying-as-truscum-is-a-disservice-to-yourself/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 11, 2020}}</ref> Terms for those who believe that gender dysphoria is not required to be transgender are ''[[wikt:transtrender|transtrender]]''<ref>{{cite journal |title=Both, and: Transmedicalism and resistance in non-binary narratives of gender-affirming care |journal=Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics |date=2021-06-04 |last=Konnelly |first=Lex |volume=43 |issue=1 |doi=10.33137/twpl.v43i1.35968 |s2cid=237909648 |url=https://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/article/view/35968/27913 |format=PDF |accessdate=2021-07-19 |quote=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.}}</ref> or ''[[wikt:tucute|tucute]]'', meaning ''"too cute to be [[cisgender]]''."<ref name="ftmmag" />


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Transmedicalists are sometimes referred to as '''transmeds'''<ref>{{Cite conference|last1=Chuanromanee|first1=Tya|last2=Metoyer|first2=Ronald|date=2021-05-06|title=Transgender People's Technology Needs to Support Health and Transition|url=https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445276|conference=Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems|location=Yokohama, Japan|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|pages=1–13|doi=10.1145/3411764.3445276|isbn=978-1-4503-8096-6}}</ref> and '''truscum''',<ref name="fontaine" /><ref>{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Rachel Anne|year=2019|title=Transgressive: A Trans Woman On Gender, Feminism, and Politics|publisher=[[Jessica Kingsley Publishers]]|page=129|isbn=978-1785926471|quote="[...] trans medicalists themselves have self-consciously [[reappropriated]] the term 'truscum' to describe their position."}}</ref> a term coined by a user on microblogging website [[Tumblr]], meaning ''"true [[transsexual]] scum''," which has since been reappropriated.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150910223136/http:/www.synaesthesiajournal.com/uploads/Wijnants_v1_n4.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref><ref name="ftmmag">{{cite magazine |last=Ballard |first=Jason Robert |date=March 26, 2019 |title=Identifying as Truscum is a Disservice to Yourself |url=https://www.ftmmagazine.com/identifying-as-truscum-is-a-disservice-to-yourself/ |magazine=[[FTM Magazine]] |access-date=December 29, 2020 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20200811192208/https://ftmmagazine.com/identifying-as-truscum-is-a-disservice-to-yourself/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 11, 2020}}</ref> Terms for those who believe that gender dysphoria is not required to be transgender are ''[[wikt:transtrender|transtrender]]''<ref>{{cite journal |title=Both, and: Transmedicalism and resistance in non-binary narratives of gender-affirming care |journal=Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics |date=2021-06-04 |last=Konnelly |first=Lex |volume=43 |issue=1 |doi=10.33137/twpl.v43i1.35968 |s2cid=237909648 |url=https://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/article/view/35968/27913 |format=PDF |accessdate=2021-07-19 |quote=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.}}</ref> or ''[[wikt:tucute|tucute]]'', meaning ''"too cute to be [[cisgender]]''."<ref name="ftmmag" /> Criticism of the transmedicalist perception of gender may view transmedicalism as akin to the [[medical model of disability]] in that it [[medicalization|medicalizes]] an attribute that contains both medical and social components. <ref>{{cite journal |last1=Baril |first1=Alexandre |title=Transness as Debility: Rethinking Intersections between Trans and Disabled Embodiments |journal=Feminist Review |date=November 2015 |volume=111 |issue=1 |pages=59–74 |doi=10.1057/fr.2015.21 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1057/fr.2015.21?casa_token=6UDdRHDhvF0AAAAA%3AwJ2UVVtvcr3LDepe9ERQFpNqk5IdqqGv_FcH3TDutVtqjCbPWXzXGKvBlDY1nh8ndEP4YwY6o22XTg |access-date=6 May 2022 |language=en |issn=0141-7789}}</ref>
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Transmedicalism is the idea that being transgender or transsexual is contingent upon experiencing gender dysphoria and/or requiring medical treatment to transition.[1][2][3][4] Transmedicalists believe individuals who identify as transgender, who do not experience gender dysphoria, and have no desire to undergo a medical transition—through methods such as hormone replacement therapy or sex reassignment surgery—are not genuinely transgender.[2][3] They may also exclude those who identify themselves as non-binary from the trans label.[5] Transmedicalists tend to see being transgender/transsexual as a medical condition, rather than an identity.Fisher, Jessica (5-7-2019). Transgender Digital Embodiments: Questions of the Transgender Body in the 21st Century (Master of Arts). Kennesaw State University. {{cite thesis}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

Transmedicalists are sometimes referred to as transmeds[6] and truscum,[3][7] a term coined by a user on microblogging website Tumblr, meaning "true transsexual scum," which has since been reappropriated.[8][9] Terms for those who believe that gender dysphoria is not required to be transgender are transtrender[10] or tucute, meaning "too cute to be cisgender."[9] Criticism of the transmedicalist perception of gender may view transmedicalism as akin to the medical model of disability in that it medicalizes an attribute that contains both medical and social components. [11]

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. ^ a b Earl, Jessie (October 21, 2019). "What Does the ContraPoints Controversy Say About the Way We Criticize?". Pride.com. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c Fontaine, Andie (August 2, 2019). "The New Frontier: Trans Rights In Iceland". The Reykjavík Grapevine. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Ben, Vincent (2020-07-02). Non-Binary Genders: Navigating Communities, Identities, and Healthcare. Policy Press. ISBN 978-1-4473-5194-8.
  6. ^ Chuanromanee, Tya; Metoyer, Ronald (2021-05-06). 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20150910223136/http:/www.synaesthesiajournal.com/uploads/Wijnants_v1_n4.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  9. ^ a b 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.
  10. ^ Konnelly, Lex (2021-06-04). "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 2021-07-19. 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.
  11. ^ 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. Retrieved 6 May 2022.


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