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 '''Transmedicalism''' is the view that [[dysphoria]] is a requirement for being [[transgender]]. People who hold this opinion are called transmedicalists, or "transmeds" for short. They may also be called "truscum",<ref name="Fontaine">{{Cite web|title=The new Frontier: Trans Rights in Icelang|last=Fontaine|first=Andie|work=The Reykjavík Grapevine|date=2 August 2019|access-date=12 July 2024|url=https://grapevine.is/icelandic-culture/2019/08/02/the-new-frontier-trans-rights-in-iceland/|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240712051542/https://grapevine.is/icelandic-culture/2019/08/02/the-new-frontier-trans-rights-in-iceland/|archive-date=12 July 2024}}</ref> which is sometimes considered pejorative. Many transmeds do not believe [[nonbinary]] genders are valid, or apply rigid requirements for which ones are valid. Transmeds also commonly believe that medical transitioning is needed in order to be genuinely transgender.
-Nonbinary journalist Jessie Earl sums it up as:<ref name="Earl">{{Cite web |title=What Does the ContraPoints Controversy Say About the Way We Criticize? |last=Earl |first=Jessie |work=Pride.com |date=21 October 2019 |access-date=12 May 2020 |url= https://www.pride.com/firstperson/2019/10/21/what-does-contrapoints-controversy-say-about-way-we-criticize|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230507214343/https://www.pride.com/firstperson/2019/10/21/what-does-contrapoints-controversy-say-about-way-we-criticize |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
+Nonbinary journalist [[Jessie Earl]] sums it up as:<ref name="Earl">{{Cite web |title=What Does the ContraPoints Controversy Say About the Way We Criticize? |last=Earl |first=Jessie |work=Pride.com |date=21 October 2019 |access-date=12 May 2020 |url= https://www.pride.com/firstperson/2019/10/21/what-does-contrapoints-controversy-say-about-way-we-criticize|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230507214343/https://www.pride.com/firstperson/2019/10/21/what-does-contrapoints-controversy-say-about-way-we-criticize |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
-{{quote|Transmedicalists believe that being transgender is contingent upon suffering and/or medical treatment. This ideology completely erases, and is harmful towards, nonbinary identities, as well as binary-identified transgender people who may experience what is known as [[gender euphoria]], or joy at having their gender affirmed. Transmedicalists, who often, unfortunately, face varying levels of suffering, trauma and bigotry due to their experience with gender dysphoria, often see those within the transgender community who do not experience a similar level of suffering to have not "earned" being a part of the community.}}
+<blockquote>Transmedicalists believe that being transgender is contingent upon suffering and/or medical treatment. This ideology completely erases, and is harmful towards, nonbinary identities, as well as binary-identified transgender people who may experience what is known as [[gender euphoria]], or joy at having their gender affirmed. Transmedicalists, who often, unfortunately, face varying levels of suffering, trauma and bigotry due to their experience with gender dysphoria, often see those within the transgender community who do not experience a similar level of suffering to have not "earned" being a part of the community.</blockquote>
 Those who take the opposing view, that dysphoria is not required, are called (by transmeds) "tucutes" or "transtrenders".{{Citation needed}} Some so-called "transtrenders" have reclaimed the term by coining terms such as trendergender, trendercore, trenderpunk, etc.<ref name="trendergender">{{Cite web |title=trendergender |author=wormhaze |work=all about xenogenders/neogenders |date= |access-date=7 July 2020 |url= https://xenogenders.carrd.co/#trendergender |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627014105/https://xenogenders.carrd.co/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet|user=roouija|date=10 March 2020|title=The young people on tiktok have coined the term “trendercore” and it's the aesthetic of presenting in a way that would piss off truscum,,,,,that is absolutely amazing|number=1237370511182757888}}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet|user=chadtransdude|number=1191005820244365312|date=3 November 2019|title=intro to trenderpunk!}}</ref>
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 Matt Goldenberg, Psy.D. and AJ Eckert, D.O. wrote an article in 2021 that states:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Protecting Our Future Leaders: Two Doctors on Gender-Affirming Care |last1=Goldenberg |first1=Matt |last2=Eckert |first2=AJ |work=Medium |date=11 December 2021 |access-date=26 February 2022 |url= https://theglamdoc.medium.com/protecting-our-future-leaders-two-doctors-on-gender-affirming-care-d0042edb82f6|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230507214533/https://theglamdoc.medium.com/protecting-our-future-leaders-two-doctors-on-gender-affirming-care-d0042edb82f6 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
-{{quote|...not all trans people experience gender dysphoria. The belief that a diagnosis is clinically required to access gender-affirming care, known as transmedicalism, can contribute to stigma and discrimination toward transgender individuals because centering a mental health diagnosis suggests that all gender diverse people are inherently mentally ill. Another consequence of centering gender dysphoria as an essential trans experience is that it fails to consider that gender diversity is natural and a vital aspect of all societies, not a narrowly defined American pathology. Simply stated, an experience of gender dysphoria is not a requirement to be considered part of the trans community.}}
+<blockquote>...not all trans people experience gender dysphoria. The belief that a diagnosis is clinically required to access gender-affirming care, known as transmedicalism, can contribute to stigma and discrimination toward transgender individuals because centering a mental health diagnosis suggests that all gender diverse people are inherently mentally ill. Another consequence of centering gender dysphoria as an essential trans experience is that it fails to consider that gender diversity is natural and a vital aspect of all societies, not a narrowly defined American pathology. Simply stated, an experience of gender dysphoria is not a requirement to be considered part of the trans community.</blockquote>
 ==Further Reading==
 *{{Cite web|title=A Brief Critique of Transmedicalism|author=Char (floatingpik)|work=void where inhibited|date=9 August 2016|access-date=12 May 2020|url=https://voidwhereinhibited.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/a-brief-critique-of-transmedicalism/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230507214116/https://voidwhereinhibited.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/a-brief-critique-of-transmedicalism/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}
 *[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Transmedicalism Transmedicalism] at [[w:RationalWiki|RationalWiki]]
 *{{Cite web|title=“Truscum”: Why Do They Hate The Way They Do?|last=ashley|first=logan|work=Medium|date=10 June 2019|access-date=12 May 2020|url=https://medium.com/@atranslog/truscum-why-do-they-hate-the-way-they-do-23d5f9fe21aa|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230507214215/https://medium.com/@atranslog/truscum-why-do-they-hate-the-way-they-do-23d5f9fe21aa|archive-date=17 July 2023}}
 *{{Cite web|title=Some thoughts on the 'Truscum' v 'Tucute' debate.|author=|work=around the internets in 8 hours|date=13 October 2014|access-date=12 May 2020|url=https://phineasfrogg.tumblr.com/post/99960248469/some-thoughts-on-the-truscum-v-tucute-debate|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230507214216/https://phineasfrogg.tumblr.com/post/99960248469/some-thoughts-on-the-truscum-v-tucute-debate|archive-date=17 July 2023}}