2018, C. M. Zhang, Biopolitical and Necropolitical Constructions of the Incarcerated Trans Body, in Colum. J. Gender & L.:
Indeed, the very notion of care takes a fundamentally transmedicalist view of altering one's hormonal makeup, secondary sex characteristics, genitalia, etc., which marks them as categorically different from other modes of body modification […]
2019, D Tanner, The body politic: The changing face of psychotherapy and transgender, in Psychotherapy and Politics International:
While “transmedicalists,”[sic] believe that only those who experience GD are transsexual/transgender, and that GD is a medical conditionthat requires corrective surgery, for many trans is an identity.
2020, Ben Vincent, Non-Binary Genders: Navigating Communities, Identities, and Healthcare (→ISBN), page 8:
[…] positionality, though transmedicalists may emphasise the centrality of embodied dysphoria. That is, a person experiencing social dysphoria alone (discomfort with being positioned as a particular gendered subject, but ambivalence or happiness about the body) would not satisfy a transmedicalist understanding of trans, which ...
2020, T. Augustaitis, Online Transgender Health Information Seeking: Facilitators, Barriers, and Future Directions, page 10:
Social media also gives transmedicalists (ie transmeds) a platform to spread hate speech and misinformation. Transmedicalists believe that trans people who do not have surgeries or go on hormones are not trans […]
2020, S. L. Cavar, Enacting Transbutch: Queer Narratives Beyond Essentialism:
[…] when they also have diagnosed gender dysphoria. Transmedicalists most often propagate the narrative […]
On the other sit transmedicalists, who advocate biomedical intervention to correct inherently “wrong" bodies in pursuit […]
2020, E Campano, Online Shaming: Ethical Tools for Human-Computer Interaction Designers:
[…] she included a 10 second clip voiced over by transsexual pornographic actor Buck Angel, whom some transgender rights activists criticize as a transmedicalist – that is to say, someone who believes that people who do not experience gender dysphoria, or undergo medical […]
2018, Benjamin Vincent, Transgender Health: A Practitioner's Guide to Binary and Non-Binary Trans Patient Care, Jessica Kingsley Publishers (→ISBN), page 126:
Some trans people claim that one is only trans if experiencing the need for a medical transition, because of gender dysphoria. These individuals and communities are sometimes known as transmedicalists, or truscum (Schmitt 2013).
2019, Eris Young, They/Them/Their: A Guide to Nonbinary and Genderqueer Identities, Jessica Kingsley Publishers (→ISBN), page 163:
There are some members of the binary trans community (commonly called transmedicalists, transfundamentalists or 'truscum'), who think that having gender dysphoria is a prerequisite for being trans, and that people who don't experience it ...