• Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.org
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      9 months ago

      The idea that a person can be socialized into being trans is directly contradictory to the idea that a trans person is born trans and that their gender identity is an unchangeable biological reality of who they are (which causes dysphoria when mismatched with their body).

      You are collapsing too many ideas into one here.

      There are people who through some combination of nature and nurture find themselves wanting to be treated in a way which aligns much closer to how one gender gets treated in a particular society. They may choose to transition to get this treatment despite having no dysphoria about themselves or their body. Being upset about how someone treats you is not necessarily dysphoria. There are also individuals who don’t experience their gender negatively but experience another gender more positively. They do not have dysphoria yet may choose to transition to maximize their happiness. Do not erase these individuals.

      Arguing that dysphoria is central to the trans experience is a trans medicalist (truscum) viewpoint and exclusionary rhetoric isn’t nice and therefore isn’t allowed around here.

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      This is gatekeeping via transmedicalist talking points.

      Dysphoria is not central to the trans experience. It’s central to some trans experiences.

      Even if your belief that dysphoria has biological/medical routes were true, that still doesn’t mean that it’s the only way to be trans.

      Whatever else it is, gender is also a social construct, and our relationships with social constructs shape who we are in very real ways.

      And hell to take your gatekeeping ever further, even if you’re right, and some trans folk can “stop being trans” as a result of their social environment or whatever, they’re still trans until they’re not.

      This is about the time that people (typically) stop the conversation and try to get you banned by calling you truscum and transphobic.

      Yep, for good reason