[CW: Exclusionary rhetoric, enbyphobia, and transphobia]

spoiler

I am welcome here and valid as a non-binary person, right?

I consider myself transgender, and I’ve been invalidated by some other trans people who told me that I don’t “count” as trans simply because I’m non-binary, despite being trans by

  • dictionary definition (identifying with a gender that does not align with my assigned sex at birth)
  • experience (social, medical and legal transition, all the stress [including financial] alongside it, and my family being viciously transphobic towards me)
  • and self-identification (I consider myself to be trans)

I have to ask because I used to assume that was granted in most trans communities, but after being excluded from many of them and told some transphobic things more harsh than anything cis people have told me even, I remain alert and skeptical whenever I encounter a new online community for trans people (or even queer people period).

  • Angel [any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Yeah, that’s what I meant in that portion:

    Transmedicalism is obviously the cause of this, and the premise that transmedicalism operates under, in and of itself, is false, but it’s also problematic because they don’t live up to said premise at face value anyway:

    They say “All we, as transmeds, believe is simply that you need dysphoria to be trans! That’s it!”, which, like I said, is already a false premise in and of itself, but it gets worse when you consider that when someone who is dysphoric doesn’t meet a certain and particular assimilationist narrative around being trans, be it through them being GNC, non-binary, undergoing transition in an unconventional way, all of the above or something else, they then decide that their dysphoria doesn’t truly “count” as real dysphoria.