Anonymous asked: So are you truscum/trans med or are you against the harmful medicalisation of being trans? Frommur post I wouldnt think u are, but just in case before I follow (sorry if that seems rude I just dont want to see toxic stuff on my dash.)

TRIGGER WARNING, THIS POST GOT REBLOGGED BY ACTUAL FLIPPING TRUSCUM. THIS POST WILL BE MY ONE REPLY TO THOSE LIVING PIECES OF SLIME. AFTER THAT THEY WILL NOT APPEAR ON THIS BLOG AGAIN.

angrygypsy:

tres-scum: queeranarchism: tres-scum: queeranarchism: No problem. I am absolutely against the medicalisation of transgender lives. You do not need to want any physical changes or experience dysphoria to be trans. (in fact, I firmly believe 90% of dysphoria is the pain of living in a cissexist world, crafted into a diagnosis so the cis people can feel like this pain is inherent rather than the result of the fucked up world they build). Transition health care should be available to those who want it and they should be able to make all their own choices about it. Truscum can bite my gendereuphoric ass. saying sex dysphoria is a result of a cissexist society is erasing the experiences of transgender people and saying our condition is a social issue

we were born like this, it’s no one’s fault and it can’t be fix by people being nicer Go read this explanation I wrote in response to an earlier question, maybe you’ll understand what I mean. oh my goodness but the disconnect between our internal body map and our actual body is very much real and that’s what sex dysphoria is and that’s what makes us transgender There has been a lot of studies into the differences between male and female brains, the way brains map to bodies and the scientific causes behind dysphoria. It’s not social, it’s neurological. There are problems caused by society that increase dysphoria, but dysphoria itself is nothing to do with society.

First: You do not need to feel a disconnect between your body and your ‘internal body map’ to be transgender. Only a disconnect between whatever gender you were assumed to be at birth and how you actually identify.

Second: Most studies done to ‘prove’ that there are female brains and male brains are extremely doubtful. The observed differences are often the EXACT SAME ‘brain differences’ that previous studied found to be ‘evidence of the gay brain’ and then dismissed again. The research is dodgy and desperate to prove a point of flimsy evidence. And most of all, most studies completely ignore that the brain is actually a thing that changes based on our experience, the skills we learn, and so on.

Third: My point was never that transgender people don’t experience any inherent unease about the difference between what they feel their body should be and what their body actually is. Many, though not all, do. However, the unease (and dysphoria literally means unease) that accompanies this difference is often 90% how society labels and responds to that body and then does not allow you to change it. Doctors like to pretend that all the pain transgender people feel is all ‘inherent dysphoria’, therebye making cis violence invisible and making being transgender seem like something inherently painful and tragic. It’s not.

Fourth: If you’re worried about people erasing the voices of transgender people, try not being truscum.

Fifth: I explained once, I explained twice, now I explained a third time and I am getting really fucking tired of truscum so don’t expect a fourth reply. Blocking your arses.