All of the infighting factions read like TERFs to me. Transmedicalists project societal views of transness onto non-binary people just like transphobes do. It’s ultimately a function of people airing their internalized transphobia onto people who are also just trying to live authentic lives.

Kind of like how TERFs just interject their opinions about our personhood because they’ve internalized misogyny and take it out on a community that is less powerful than their own. Because they perceive themselves as the ones in a struggle for power with an offender, TERFs will always leave a transphobic exchange feeling like they’re helping the world by calling out people who they feel need to be called out.

In the same sense, transmedicalists are trans people who have aligned with transphobes and TERFs out of a sense of fear that non-binary inclusion will hold them back in society.

The LGB rights movement said that about us, too, at the same time as trans women in the 70s and 80s were practically carrying their movement.

And truly, I feel that non-binary people are at the forefront of our movement right now, changing minds in a big way by demanding a society that includes them, whereas I’ve always been more personally aligned with finding a way to blend in and not be targeted.

Choosing to tackle the gender binary as a marginalized person within an already marginalized community is a massive undertaking given that scrutiny comes from all sides, and often with a hateful intensity that cuts like a knife.

Oof, I didn’t expect this reply to get this long, but you may be able to tell at this point that words are a strength of mine while brevity is *not*.

Thank you so much for your input and claps for my writing, I appreciate you!!