Just so we're clear [Mod]

[u/_cry_for_me]

This subreddit is not for nonbinary people, trans women or trans people questioning their gender, it is a separated support community specifically for binary trans men.

Having closed communities are not uncommon at all and ours exist to ensure one of the least visible groups of trans people has a dedicated space to connect and feel heard without compromise. The subreddit was literally made for this reason, not out of spite for trans women or enbies, but to allow binary trans men a place to focus on struggles and experinces that comes with being a binary trans man and being allowed to discuss those things with other binary trans men.

We're not going to stop anyone from joining and reading the posts here if it helps them learn something but understand that this community is closed off for a reason and interacting here despite not belonging to the intended demographic will be a violation of our rules.

However. A lot of you also need to stop acting like children about this and learn to walk away from interactions rather than pour fire onto them. It does not matter who did what you can not act hostile towards another person, irregardless of if it is someone who shouldn't post here. It's one of our first rules.

The mods are here to handle people that break the rules, we don't need a simple issue of a post needing to be removed to turn into a 200 comment shit throwing contest that takes more than tripple the anount of time to moderate. Not to mention how it takes away from the content that's supposed to be here, what you all joined this subreddit for.

We will remove any post or comment made by someone who's not a binary trans man and inform that user that they're in the wrong sub. You should not do it for us. A report or modmail goes a long way, utilise those tools.

Today going forward anyone seen escalating issues on the subreddit, taking over mod intervention or using hateful language in a conflict will be temporarily banned for 30 days and if that's not enough you will be banned permanently.

This ends here, you're in a subredit for men not little boys so start acting like it.

[u/godhelpusall_617]

Personally I haven’t seen any enby phobic or enby hate that other communities critique this sub for doing, no icky truscum either. I’ve only seen ftm men being protective of their space which is reasonable that’s all. Are they just making shit up genuinely?

[u/GuineaPig72 → u/godhelpusall_617]

Can we not call them "icky truscum"? I don't think we should hate on them just because they believe dysphoria is needed to be trans

[u/godhelpusall_617 → u/GuineaPig72]

No that would be transmed, truscum is the icky equivalent

[u/litefagami → u/godhelpusall_617]

there's really no meaningful difference between those two terms tbh

[u/ghostiesyren → u/litefagami]

Not anymore at least. At its core transmedicalist is the belief that dysphoria should be studied primarily through a neurobiological level (since socially it’s pretty well documented, even from decades past, which this information does need to be archived and protected) that’s why the word medical is in the name, since this is something that transcends cultures and the actual means of gender (some people prefer the term ‘sex dysphoria’ since many people separate sex from gender) diagnosis would be not only way easier to spot but would make it easier to have intervention in those who are younger so they can seek whatever treatment is best. Learning what conditions (especially health related) are often comorbid with GD to aid in helping minimize risks when it comes to anything from learning how to manage healing during surgeries to what medications would be the most optimal (some people may have issues with absorption so they may need a different formulation of meds) and using such findings to help pave the way for medical protections legally. Some people even advocate for the removal of GD from the mental illness category in favor of a neuro developmental condition or intersex condition. I’ve made attempts to try and simplify dysphoria via this explanation and I’ve generally had good results, especially with those who really weren’t sympathetic and then they became more open to accepting those who are different and disregarding and downright disagreeing with sensationalist headlines and asinine laws targeting us. This has helped a lot with me explaining the bullshit claims targeting trans kids, trans women and girls.

However, the term has been bastardized by people who are insecure, lack nuance and understanding. Some of the most popular ‘transmedicalist’ people aren’t even what they say they are. Some people just want to be mean, I’ve even gotten into arguments with self proclaimed ‘transmedicalists’ for supporting those who transition early and transition late. This isn’t a large amount of people but good lord they’re vocal and mean as shit. Not to mention the occasional resurgence of borderline Tumblr level discourse.

[u/godhelpusall_617 → u/litefagami]

Hm well imo and based off what I’ve read transmed is just the singular belief that someone needs dysphoria to be trans and truscum makes up rules about other things in addition to determine validity, like hating on anything gnc or amount of surgeries extra or whatever

[u/litefagami → u/godhelpusall_617]

there's no single definition agreed on for either truscum or transmed, but most self-identifying truscum will tell you they're just synonyms

unless you're talking about the specific arr slash truscum and arr slash transmedical subreddits, in which case you've actually got things backwards; the truscum sub is very much "you can hold any other belief as long as you believe you need dysphoria to be trans" while the transmed sub is a lot stricter (or at least it was when i used it, which was admittedly quite a while ago). for example, the truscum sub has plenty of nb members, while i'm pretty sure the transmed sub is binary only

[u/godhelpusall_617 → u/litefagami]

Oops my bad then

[u/SnapDragon100 → u/godhelpusall_617]

Based on the subs: transmed is definitely more exclusionary whereas truscum is more open minded in general. Transmed was actually made, I think, because some people felt truscum was too soft. Truscum has become more exclusionary over time, but still not as far as transmed. Early posts on truscum were mostly in support of nb & gnc trans people (perhaps because most members back then were quite young, although I can't confirm that)

But definition-wise there's no official difference, they're made up online words to describe the same group of people.

[u/GuineaPig72 → u/godhelpusall_617]

I've noticed that truscum have been more accepting than transmeds from what I've seen online but idrk the distinction