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ELI5: What is trans medicalism? (hexbear.net)
submitted 11 months ago by marxisthayaca@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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I was watching this fascinating video lecture by a neurobiology professor and the brain regions that are dimorphic and are correlated with expressions of male and female gender alignment; but the comments devolved on accusations of "trans medicalism". My assumption is that this is an accusation of boiling down transgenderism to sex-characteristics as expressed through the brain, and the possibility of "testing" that would deny transgenderness if the person doesn't have these correlating sizes previously identified in research.

Am I missing something?

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[–] Angel@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A steaming pile of horse shit.

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

well yeah, but I was curious as to the ideological borders that contain said pile of horse shit.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I know. I could give a long explanation of the faultiness of it, but quite frankly, it was very kneejerk for me to respond in such a way because transmedicalism has been very harmful to me personally. It's hardly a coherent ideology as much as it's just about "hate and invalidate any trans person that's non-conventionally trans". Heh.