I believe everyone who feels different than their AGAB and identifies as something different is valid as a trans person. Why would someone need to have gender dysphoria or scientific proof to be valid in their identity.

If you think this or something like it why do you? I want to hear from people who think this, and no I don't agree with them at all. I'm am against transmedicalism aggressively. I just want to understand why.

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I was when I was more ignorant of the trans experience. I read about the process for transition as an outsider and read from resources not written by the community. They talked about it in terms of justifying taking steps, essentially gate keeping the process. Get a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, social transition for a specific period of time, then puberty blockers, more time, then hormones, then maybe surgery, etc.

After actually learning FROM trans people rather than ABOUT them all of that fell away. The same applies to my experience learning about autism and ADHD. There is a good reason for the phrase "nothing about us without us".

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