I almost never see people talking about middle ground between having a transmedicalist ("truscum") position and a more inclusive, mainstream stance, but it's really not hard to be a binary trans person who integrates the two points of view.
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I do have some opinions that are slightly outside the mainstream- I generally think that you can be something outside of your identification with it. (For instance, I think you can be trans and lie about it, or not know it yet.)
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However- and this is crucial- I don't think I've got any special ability to know what someone's medical condition/gender identity is. There's no test for it. So, in practice, just believing what people says is the closest anyone can come to knowing whether they're trans or not.
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My more medical, more material view doesn't come into practical conflict with someone who emphasizes the socially constructed aspects of identity because listening to what people say and believing them is more accurate than any other test we have.
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