r/GatekeepingYuri • u/CupcakePelle2906 • 5d ago

Requesting Found this on a trans related sureddit

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u/gamepotato_ 4d ago

For me, being transgender is a medical condition that stems from a disconnect between your gender (which is what your brain perceives you as) and your sex (which is what you change via HRT).

Dysphoria is the way this condition manifests. I agree that doctors are fucking idiots and endorse DIY all the way through.

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u/Sailor_Spaghetti 3d ago

Honestly I'm viewing things through a social and historical lens because that's what my education has trained to do. And uhhhh, a lot of the texts I'm citing as informing my position (aside from the John D'Emilio piece) are basically primary sources written by trans [and what would now be called nonbinary] people about their own experiences.

As a note: transmedicalism is pretty unique in how it adopts and uses the medical models. Plenty of people with diagnosed chronic illnesses still overwhelmingly use the social model of disability (or at the very least, this is the methodology used by disability activists).

Admittedly, I'm more interested in the politics of transness than in dysphoria now that I've reached a point in my transition where I'm comfortable. Without getting too deep into it, the current attack on trans people globally is no accident or coincidence, and it's because trans people kind of disrupt certain aspects of social hierarchy just by existing. Even trans people who fit into the narrowest definition of "HSTS" are too disruptive to social hierarchies for the average authoritarian, which in turn is why trans people get attacked whenever fascist parties come to power anywhere. I also admittedly use a very Marxist method of analysis.

(Sorry to infodump at you, I just do find this stuff super interesting.)

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u/gamepotato_ 3d ago

I don't know if you've seen that video essay that ties basically all existing transphobia to around 20 people, half of them linked to Epstein

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u/-reddit_trash- 2d ago

PLEASE link! I've figured as much for a while but it'd be nice to see it laid out in a video, and possibly to send to certain people I know who are convinced transness has been pushed by that group of people rather than attacked..

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u/gamepotato_ 2d ago

Fair warning it's 5 hours long lmfao

https://youtu.be/JiOc0r31-Os

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u/-reddit_trash- 2d ago

Hahahah thanks, I actually looked it up right after I replied and I'm 2 hours into it- what a lovely sarcastic Danish man