the way the trans community talks about medical transition is super binary and we need to start thinking more critically about that

when you categorize trans people by whether they’re “pre-op,” “post-op,” or “non-op,” you are centering medical transition. i don’t know anyone who would call themselves “non-op” unless they were *asked* if they’re ever getting surgery (which is an invasive question anyway)!

if a trans person isn’t getting surgery, or going on hormones, there’s no reason to label that. the fact that anyone still feels a need to is proof of how much further our community needs to go to demedicalize transness.

tbh half the time, people calling themselves “post-op” or “pre-t” are just looking for a way to validate their transness by saying that (a) they’ve medically transitioned or (b) they plan on it, which—you guessed it!—harms trans people who don’t plan on medically transitioning.

imo there’s not really one solution for this issue but i think we just need to move away from this language in general (aside from individual use when necessary). plus it’s not really anyone’s business anyway tbh

people are misinterpreting what i’m saying so just to be clear my point is *not* that these terms have no place in the trans community but that there are some worrying patterns in the ways i’ve seen them being used

for the record, i’m also not trying to say that people who experience specific forms of transphobia bc they are medically transitioning (or they aren’t) shouldn’t use this language to talk about it, i’m just pointing out that often the language is used in a harmful way

can you guys stop calling me non-binary though...i’m a trans man and i literally never said i’m non-binary anywhere