transmed

plural transmeds

1. A person who believes that medically-diagnosed gender dysphoria or medical transition are essential traits of being transgender.

   Someone gave the example of a trans person with many social media followers who is a transmed and said: […]

   2020, Taika Augustaitis, "Online Transgender Health Information Seeking:Facilitators, Barriers, and Future Directions", thesis submitted to the University of Michigan School of Information, page 10

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   Interestingly, both transmeds and anti-transmeds use medical discourses to legitimate their claims, despite anti-transmeds claiming to be against the medicalization of trans identities.

   2020, Hanna Jacobsen, "Who Counts as Trans?: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Tumblr Posts", thesis submitted to the University of Victoria

   They also deserve to have all of this on their own terms, without the legitimacy of their transness being interrogated, over and over, by transmeds and TERFs.

   2021, Sasha Carney, “Enid Blyton, Mumsnet, and Transmasculine Childhood”, in Broad Recognition, Yale University, page 40

   Synonyms: transmedicalist, truscum · Antonyms: tucute