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/?
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".
its honestly kind of sad. like they're reactionaries, but specfically reactionaries against the culture of self-acceptance that grew in online trans spaces.
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.
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:
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.
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.
tumblr user that at the time went by idislikecispeople came up with the term to refer to people who were against transmeds, which were mostly called truscum back then. because they called themselves true transsexuals as opposed to anyone who didn't fit their standards of transness, so other trans ppl took to calling them that like yeah more like "true scum".
she was a bit toxic herself but not because she was against transmeds. for example she was one of those people that put down transmascs a lot. but anyway it was a term on tumblr for a hot second but it didn't really stick for various reasons.
so is tucute intended as a slur or....? sorry, i genuinely can't tell what the status of these terms is.
It's like one of those foreign series with 323 episodes. You really have to have been watching the whole thing since Season 1 for anything to make sense.
Social equality is no less important than economic growth.
I can't be the only one who finds this question confusing, is "no less" a double negative?
It's idiomatic in American English, and most other dialects I'm pretty sure. You might rewrite it as "social equality is just as important as economic growth."
I’m full liberationist in my politics but assimilationist in my personal life lol.
And that's perfectly fine. I just recently had a conversation about that very topic with a really dear friend of mine who is stealth in some spaces and there's no question for me that's entirely up to her. She's had more than enough struggles with believing she'd never pass, i'm happy she can finally accept herself and i'm glad for her that her transition turned out the way it did. Yes, that's a kind of privilege and she recognizes that, but she's still trans, she's still systemically oppressed and marginalized, she just gets to take breaks from the full brunt of transphobia from time to time. And when people have that opportunity, it's completely alright to use it, this life can be hard enough to bear already.
I'm fighting this fight because i want trans people to thrive and be happy. And that means i can't demand from everybody to put themselves out on the front lines, because the fewest people can thrive there. When i talk about being visibly trans in public, people always tell me i'm braver than the troops. But some days i don't want to be brave. It's just that with the way i still look rn and with the dysphoria boymoding gives me, and with the so-so level of transphobia around here, a forward defense of just saying fuck it and being as genderfuck as i happen to be on a given day is simply the easiest and least painful strategy for me. I find fulfillment in fighting the good fight, purpose, sure, and i see the necessity of it all in the grand scheme of things, but i wish this wouldn't be needed. I just want to cuddle with my friends while we meow at each other.
