Oh, dysphoria makes you trutrans? That's cool. I've been experiencing dysfiveia since I was a fetus. The doc said it makes me truest trans.
2015 November 7, @AliceAvizandum, Twitter[4], archived from the original on 2023-04-15:
[extremely trutrans voice] excuse me, I have a medical condition
2016 February 10, @MinatureFanatic, Twitter[5], archived from the original on 2023-04-16:
I'm a trutrans cunt. I also hate tumblr trans bullshit.
2017 November 22, @Gender_Pirate, Twitter[6], archived from the original on 2023-07-06:
It's like the trutrans types who think we're somehow hurting trans people by fighting the oppression, instead of conforming to it. Sorry peeps, I don't want to be second class.
This disdain for AFAB folks daring to question their gender is also often seen in trutrans circles. So often trutrans folk seem to really, REALLY dislike transmascs who aren't solely binary trans men (and sometimes still even them).
On some level I get the trutrans bullshit because that’s really the only way trans people could get any help for many decades
2019, Rillark M. Bolton, "Reworking Testosterone as a Man’s Hormone: Non-binary People using Testosterone within a Binary Gender System", Somatechnics, Volume 9, Issue 1, April 2019, page 22:
Exi, a white non-binary person, was one of the participants who spoke most explicitly about intra-trans regulation. They told me that they ‘got fed up with reading a lot of the resources [about testosterone use] because they aimed at a specific kind of narrative; I got really trutrans truscum vibes from it’. Exi here is referring to the more extreme forms of intra-trans regulation, known as ‘trutrans’ and ‘truscum’. These trans people regulate and reject other trans and non-binary people who do not conform to strict notions of what it means to be trans, the criteria of which is attached to the trans and wrong body narratives.
2022, anonymous r/transgendercirclejerk poster, quoted in Emily Ae Williams, "Artificial Operators: Function and Use in English", dissertation submitted to The University of Texas at Arlington, page 40:
I'm already an awful driver. Should I detransition for the safety of other drivers or does it just mean that I'm TruTrans®
2022 May 25, @tttt_takes, Twitter[9], archived from the original on 2022-11-20:
Sorry to burst your bubble but you're not trutrans unless you're playing Nintendo. This is worth gatekeeping.
2022 July 19, @boricfem, Twitter[10], archived from the original on 2022-11-20:
i cannot stand the trutrans "radfem ally" tims bc at the end of the day, they believe they deserve some special ticket into female spaces over other tims bc they "pass/look like women," essentially redirecting the issue from maleness, to how well one can performance the facade
2022 October 13, @CommieDGurl, Twitter[11], archived from the original on 2022-11-20:
There will be a public blow back against trans adults rights because of the effort being made right now to race to transition as many minors as possible using bunk affirmation and validation seeking trutrans sperging to justify it. Normal people hate all of this!
Literally anyone who came out after the aughties is a transtrender according to the origins of the term (also overvalueing psych assesments is incredibly bad, and ironic considering I know some internet trutrans who don't have them either)
Genderlife was set up by Calpernia Adams in (I think) the late 90s. It was a hive of trutranses and chasers pretending to be trans women, but it was all we had.
and re this, it's telling that sometime between 2015 and 2017 the terf discourse shifted from "go deep stealth and get surgery please, that makes you a trutrans who is worthy of our respect instead of an agp transtrender" (respectability politics, which appeals to LGBs) [...] to "trans women need to be easily identifiable by an adams apple or pink triangle. surgery is mutilation. just detransition already" (eliminiationism, which appeals to the straights). it really did become a movement of, for and by heteros
also note here that by “keep that to yourself” i’m not saying you can never talk about it and you’re not a trutrans if you don’t want these things i’m saying stop calling other trans mens bodies gross or weird .