If you experience literally zero discontent with your assigned gender (so no dysphoria), and you are identifying with a different one (so you're trans), basically it's just being trans for fun? I mean, isn't that a mockery of trans people and their struggles? ◥ Anonymous

Do you think people just one day decide to identify as a different gender for funsies? Do you not realize what “identify” means? It’s not picking out a pair of heels, it’s a fundamental understanding of yourself.

There is no trans person who doesn’t feel discontent toward identifying as their assigned gender… hence why they identify differently in the first place. You can take your strawman and go.

Because not everyone has to hate themselves, or their bodies, or their genitals, or even their assigned gender to be trans. Not everyone has to characterize their feelings about being trans as “dysphoria”. And their life experiences as being trans will never be a “mockery” to trans people and our struggles because their struggles are our struggles and our struggles are their struggles. Period.

Truscum, even as they continuously lose ground, keep clinging to dysphoria and nonconsensually assigning it to “tru trans people”. Truscum will keep redefining what dysphoria means in order to control what people they “allow” to be trans.

Because there are some trans and non-cis people who will never feel comfortable using such language, because truscum had made it unsafe for them. With one hand you preach about how dysphoria is the ultimate transness and you should be prioritized always in every way, while with the other you try to stamp out anything you arbitrarily deem as “mocking” your specific experience:

neopronouns, people making light of their gender confusion, people taking pride in their identities, people happy about being trans. Anything that you don’t like, is deemed “non-dysphoric” and shoved into the “transtrenders” pile.

So while your definition of trans being “discontent with assigned gender” is technically right, it is an act of aggression to forcibly characterize that as the loaded and contentious adjective “dysphoric”, and it is an act of aggression to presume that all trans people must “prove” their decision to identify as trans in a way that you deem worthy.

Not everyone has to feel the same way about being trans. Stop gatekeeping the trans community.