transmed
English edit
Etymology edit
Clipping of transmedicalist or trans- + med.
Noun edit
transmed (plural transmeds)
- A person who believes that medically-diagnosed gender dysphoria and/or medical transition are an essential trait of being transgender.
- Synonyms: transmedicalist, truscum (derogatory)
- Antonym: tucute (slang)
- 2020, Hanna Jacobsen, "Who Counts as Trans?: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Tumblr Posts", thesis submitted to the University of Victoria:
- Interestingly, both transmeds and anti-transmeds use medical discourses to legitimate their claims, despite anti-transmeds claiming to be against the medicalization of trans identities.
- 2020, Taika Augustaitis, "Online Transgender Health Information Seeking:Facilitators, Barriers, and Future Directions", thesis submitted to the University of Michigan School of Information, page 10:
- Someone gave the example of a trans person with many social media followers who is a transmed and said: […]
- 2021, Sasha Carney, “Enid Blyton, Mumsnet, and Transmasculine Childhood”, in Broad Recognition, Yale University, page 40:
- They also deserve to have all of this on their own terms, without the legitimacy of their transness being interrogated, over and over, by transmeds and TERFs.
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