Anti-Transids, there is room for you to support transids, you probably already do
In light of my recent survey on transID transitioning, I also wanted to throw out some of my favourite times people who are supposedly rampantly anti-radqueer have been blatantly pro-transid and pro-transition
I call these guys anonymously pro-transid, they fit the definition but they’re convinced that they don’t because they mischaracterise it for a variety of reasons – there’s more support out there for the concept of transids than you think!
In my hunt for anti-transid arguments I was actually finding a lot of stuff like this:
- Chronosian – the first variant of an accidentally pro-transid term I know of and it’s still being used/coined for despite it literally being transage with a ‘disconnection from the community/term
- ‘The making of an atypical dysphoria awareness flag
- Arissomei – whilst claiming to be anti-transition and anti-transid, the coiner also states that “if your "transition” doesn’t hurt others, yourself, appropriate, glorify, fetishize, or romanticize anything, you’re fine!“ and they include amputation as acceptable transitioning. The term lists some of the most common reasons for transidentification
- Arriso- Subterms – these have started covering everything from transage and transabled to things like transvoice and transnationality. In my view there really isn’t a distinction between these anymore especially as more radqueers are considering themselves non-community radqueers
- More acceptance towards transitioning methods deemed harmless, especially social transitioning and self-disabling transitioning
Generally, I think anti-radqueers have moved past their weaker arguments about the trans- prefix and how atypical dysphoria isn’t real (remember when that was an argument? wow how times have changed) have moved on to stretching assumptions about the community being pro-c, romanticising/fetishising their identities, pro-all types of transitioning, pro-every term ever coined that’s been tagged as radqueer, so on.
In reality, they don’t understand that these things are huge discourse starters in the community, which is exactly why lots rq spaces don’t talk about them, because they don’t want to fragment their already-small and widely harassed community any further
They also don’t see that you can be pro- these identities and experiences without being pro- the community they deem as so harmful based on anecdotal negative experiences, and that plenty of radqueers have actually moved past identifying with the community
61.6% of the 112 responses my TransID-only survey has gained so far consider themselves just ‘radqueer’. 15.2% are non-community radqueers, 13.4% are pro-transid and pro-para but don’t use radqueer, and around 5% either consider themselves not pro-para, not pro-transid, or neither
If you support any of the terms I’ve listed here, there is room for you to support various transids – you already do