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[–]kwallio 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Here is what I think they are, but I'm not trans, just an observer.

tucute - most trans ppl, the "don't need dysphoria to be trans", meds/surgery on demand ("no hatekeeping") etc eta - Should also mention that this group thinks that you don't have to take steps to transition or pass as the opposite sex in order to be trans.

transmeds/truscum - the old school sort of trans, thinks tucutes are "transtrenders", has dysphoria, thinks people should have dysphoria in order to be considered trans.

I might be reading too much into things but it seems like at least for males the Blanchard HSTS (or homosexual before transition) types fall into the transmeds and the AGP (or heterosexual before transition) types fall into the tucutes.

I'm not sure where non-binaries, trans-mascs or trans-femmes who don't transition medically fall.

Some of the wierd language has occurred because some of these terms are insults the trans community throws at each other (truscum is what the tucutes call the tranmeds, tucute is what the transmeds call the non-dysphoria having or requiring trans, who basically call themselves just trans).

[–]FlanJam[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Ok, I see. Funny how QT likes to invent labels. The lesbian community has some infighting as well, over who is/isn't lesbian, but we don't have labels like truscum or tucute. And we definitely don't have anything like "terf" (although, some people tried to use blerf but it thankfully never got popular)

[–]censorshipment 4 insightful - 6 fun4 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 6 fun -  (2 children)

We have platinum star, gold star and non-gold star though. Lesbians who have never been involved with a man in any way, lesbians who may have had boyfriends or dated guys but never had sex with them, and lesbians who have been sexually involved with men / married to men. The latter may not be considered lesbians depending on who you talk to. I personally believe having sex with a guy ONE time is excusable... but if you could tolerate having consensual sex with a man multiple times, you're bisexual. I don't care about that "comphet" bullshit. I simply don't believe a lesbian can repeatedly have sex with a man by choice. I cannot fathom how that's mentally/emotionally possible.

And if you're wondering, I am a platinum star lesbian.

[–]FlanJam[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh right, forgot about those lol.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm very sorry to report that AGPs have co-opted the star system as well.