transmed

Clipping of transmedicalist or trans- +‎ med.

transmed (plural transmeds)

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

   Synonyms: transmedicalist, truscum (derogatory)

   Antonym: tucute (slang)

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

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

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

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

     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.

• trutrans