anon: Hello! I was the person who asked about transharmful IDs. I’m talking about things like “transnazi” or “transabuser”Would it not make you a nazi to feel internally like you should be one?Or am I falling for a psyop.
I don’t really understand myself and so I won’t consider this question to be answered yet, hopefully someone more knowledgeable on it can get into it more (eg. someone who uses these terms or knows of people who use them)
Are you a radqueer with an answer to this question? Feel free to answer it with a reblog or comment, or submit a post to my blog!
What I can say is that a big part of many transids existing is because the person who feels like they internally are or should be something usually doesn’t meet the traditional requirements for society to recognise them as such (unless they’re also cisid). To me, this would mean they do not have abusive/nazi/etc ideologies.
For me, I primarily struggle with how I should treat these people. If anyone does answer this, a personal question from me would be “do you like to be treated as if you are harmful/hateful?”. I imagine it’s different for everyone, but as someone who likes to validate people’s transids and treat them as they identify, I find myself instinctively avoiding some people with these identities because of that.
This has now been answered! Feel free to submit more answers:
answer 1, answer 2
In reblogs:
“As someone who privately uses transharmful labels like transabuser, the question of “do you like to be treated as if you are harmful/hateful?” is something I’ve thought about. The answers that already have been given are good, I just felt like reblogging this anyways.
I think there’s a difference between wanting to be treated as if your transIDs are cisIDs and liking being treated like that. Sometimes I do want to be treated as if I am harmful but I usually do not like it, it is not a fun experience for me. The way I categorise experiences using transharmful labels feels like an involuntary identity in a way.
For some people it can a fun experience through the perspective of sometimes it can be exciting and fun to be sadistic, especially since a lot of transharm-ed/ful spaces are very kink focused, but it isn’t for me and isn’t for everyone.
Thinking about some of my transIDs being treated as cisIDs also make me hyper aware of my own morality (dehumanisation of criminality, death sentences, being treated as if it would be better off if I was dead, etc) and so I think there can be tension between the avoidance of your own suffering and the lengths one might go to avoid dysphoria.
I think a better question related to transition for these sort of transIDs is that if transitioning to transharm-ed/ful experiences, which look very much like cisID ones, are a dysfunctional coping mechanism, is supporting bodily autonomy within that being complicit in harm? If it is, at what point does it cross a line? If it isn’t, is focusing on minimising harm the most important thing here to do? (All rhetorical questions)
Obviously not everyone will want to transition, what people do to transition will vary, and not everyone experiences transharm-ed/ful transIDs like that. But it’s something I’ve thought about.”