We Don’t Need A Reason For Being Trans

Lately, I watched Contrapoints on Youtube talk about the term “Trans-trenders” and as she does in all of her videos, battles the philosophy behind it, and shuts gatekeepers down with their bigoted opinions on what “counts” as Transgender.

Using her Nonbinary character “Baltimore Maryland”, she explains that because brain scans are not used to determine gender dysphoria, that the ‘feeling’ of distress to diagnose dysphoria, is similar to how nonbinary folks ‘feel’ a disconnect with their assigned gender at birth, and thus, binary trans folks and nonbinary trans folks aren’t so different. I only say ‘feel’ in quotes because that word is important here.

So many folks who still identify as transsexuals instead of transgender, and trans-meds, trans people who believe that being transgender is strictly a mental disorder and can only be diagnosed, like to say that these “transtrenders” or trans folks that they think are only being trans for a trend, are infiltrating the transgender community and making a “mockery” of it by perpetuating stereotypes.

These stereotypes tend to be related to the exploration that teens or young adults go through when they are figuring out their gender identity. Like coloring their hair, changing their style…