Noun: "(informal) a person who believes that medically-diagnosed gender dysphoria and/or medical transition are an essential trait of being transgender"edit
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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: […]
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.
Adjective: "(informal) espousing, characteristic of, or relating to transmedicalism"edit
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2019, Olliver Benton, "'I'm Not Afraid of My Name Anymore'", Aerial (Atherton High School, Louisville, KY), Volume 94, Issue 4, Summer 2019, page 33:
Individuals who are radically transmed also argue that there are only two genders, and identify being non-binary as the absence of gender, not a third gender or collection of genders.
2020, Hanna Jacobsen, "Who Counts as Trans?: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Tumblr Posts", thesis submitted to the University of Victoria:
In general, the tone of transmed posts was more formal and declarative, while anti-transmed relied more on humour and playfulness.
