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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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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"just believing what people says is the closest anyone can come to knowing whether they're trans or not" Truscum set themselves apart by how they view/invalidate other trans people, not by how they conceive of their own transition.pic.twitter.com/VJ4gd0kBkV
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