Sorry about the idealism tho, this test is actually hella dumb, but it's more fun than they usually are (at least if you're a permanently online trans person).

Anyway, if you want to do dumb political compass shit, but with trans memes, here's the test: https://notaquaheart.github.io/TransAxes/?

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
    hexagon
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    1 year ago

    It's how transmeds call enbies. Which is weird because i'm a fairly textbook case of a binary trans woman , but i don't support any of the stuff transmeds are in favor of, such as excluding enbies, gatekeeping trans healthcare, pathologizing transness, hating everything about yourself and "just wanting to be a normal cis girl".

      • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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        1 year ago

        its honestly kind of sad. like they're reactionaries, but specfically reactionaries against the culture of self-acceptance that grew in online trans spaces.

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
        hexagon
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        1 year ago

        I mean i can live with that label, i keep making cat sounds when i'm with the girls and i know how much that pisses truscum off.

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      wild. i got almost identical results as you when i did the quiz, and that's probably thanks to the extremely good job "Beyond Pink or Blue" does in clarifying that some trans people want to fully medically transition but some are themselves when changing their gender/gender performance :vivian-shrug:

    • frankfurt_schoolgirl [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      I think transmed and tucute are dated terms from a very specific and very online early 2010s debate. I know some binary trans people who have some problematic opinions, and maybe I have some myself, but they don't really fit with trans medicalism. Probably the closest you get is older trans people who haven't really made an effort to keep up with younger queer culture and get all reactionary about things that are new to them.

      If we wanted to be specific with language, I think we need a term for trans people who support medical gatekeeping and another term for people who are dismissive of enbies, because when somebody gets called transmed now it's usually because they have one of those two beliefs.

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
        hexagon
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        1 year ago

        I think transmed and tucute are dated terms from a very specific and very online early 2010s debate.

        That's possible for tucute. I think the only people i've ever heard the term tucute from were ContraPoints and a particularly obnoxious truscum redditor.

        But i see the term transmed all the time and unfortunately there's some spaces (particularly 4chan's trans community, but also some nasty corners of reddit, the biggest German trans facebook group etc.) where transmedicalist concepts are alive and well and these unfortunately often aren't older trans people, they're 20somethings with completely insane ideas about passing who have given themselves the worst body dysmorphia brainworms imaginable, completely define themselves by having off the charts amounts of suffering from being trans, or even unironically call themselves AGPs and think it makes them gross perverts to be both trans and lesbian. I used to think from local experience that this transmed stuff is restricted to people who transitioned 20 years ago and internalized the gatekeeping ideology that dominated psychology back then, but unfortunately i was very, very wrong about that. These people actually still exist.

        From my experience, enbiephobia and the call for gatekeeping are still very closely connected for most of these as well. Gatekeeping automatically involves a set of criteria to gatekeep people with and that will always exlcude enbies disproportionately because they're such a diverse group that a rigid set of criteria will never fit all of them well enough to get them past the gatekeepers. Gatekeeping is an inherently enbiephobic concept. And being enbiephobic is inherently gatekeepy, because it excludes some trans people from being recogfnized as valid or respectable.