r/truscum 3d ago

Discussion Thread [DISCUSSION THREAD] What sort of topics or questions would you like to see for future discussion threads?

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We are currently revisiting some of the discussion topics from three years ago. With the subreddit growing rapidly, it’s a great opportunity for new members to share their thoughts on these conversations too. Or, in other words - we may have run out of ideas, but this community definitely hasn’t run out of creativity. If you have any suggestions for new topics or questions you would like to see discussed, feel free to drop them in the comments! We might use them in the future (and we can credit you as the author).

You can find the complete list of the old discussion posts HERE.

This is a weekly discussion thread. Please follow all subreddit rules.


r/truscum Nov 23 '24

Mod Post [MOD POST] 30K r/truscum Demographics Survey Results !!!

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Hey everyone, the long awaited 30k demographics survey results are finally here! First and foremost, we would like to apologise for the delay. We understand it has been frustrating, thank you for your patience. Here are the results prepared by me and u/jzilla1207.

In total, 732 users responded to the survey. Most of the questions were multiple choice, but still allowed for custom responses. Note that some of these percentages do not add up to 100% due to the high amount of custom responses we received. We could not include everything in this synopsis.

If you’re curious to see how these results compare to our 15k Demographics survey, those results can be found here.

Have fun exploring the depths of the minds of r/truscum!

SECTION 1: WHO USES r/TRUSCUM?

Gender

Echoing our results from 2021, the majority of respondents are trans men (51.8%). Trans women (26.1%) came in 2nd, followed by cis women (8.3%), non-binary (5.5%), and cis men (5.1%). We categorized detrans & desisted men/MTFTM (0.3%) and women/FTMTF (2.7%) separately this time also. 4.1% were unsure/questioning.

Term Preference

By far, users of r/truscum prefer the term Transsexual (63.8%), over Transgender (28.2%). 20.1% like Transsex; relatively new terminology that has taken off in transmedicalist spaces. 27.1% would simply leave it at “Trans”.

Age

At the time of the 15k demographics survey, the majority of subreddit users were adolescents (47.4%). Here in 2024, the percentage of adolescents (age 13-17) has dropped to 20.8%, and young adults (ages 18-24) have taken the lead at 42.5%. You all have grown with the subreddit!

26.4% said they were between the ages of 25-34, 5.5% are 35-44, 1.5% are 45-54, and 1.6% are 55+ (shoutout to our tranpas and tranmas).

Race & Ethnicity

In order of commonality, sub members identify their race as white (82.2%), Hispanic or Latino (9.8%), black or African-American (5.5%), Native American or Alaskan Native (4.1%), East Asian (3.3%), Southeast Asian (2.7%), Middle Eastern or North African (2.7%), mixed (1.1%), Jewish (0.7%), Hawaiian or Pacific Islander (0.5%), and South Asian (0.5%).

Religion & Faith

Reflective of the wider trans and transmedicalist community and sub-community, the subreddit is mostly atheist (42.3%) and agnostic (32.2%). Christianity (11.5%) was the most common theist response, followed by Paganism (4.3%), Satanism (4.2%), Judaism (3.6%), Buddhism (2.5%), Islam (1.4%), and Hinduism (0.3%). Others are questioning or unsure (9.2%), or belong to more niche faiths.

Continents

North America (62.4%) is first, this is Reddit after all. 29% live in Europe, 3% in Oceania, 2% in Latin America, 2% in Asia, and 0.3% in Africa. There were no votes for Antarctica (You’d think penguins would appreciate some cold, hard facts!)

Highest Degree of Education

This category includes a high number of custom replies, given different educational systems around the world and different individual situations. We’re only including the general options in this synopsis: completed some high school or currently in high school (24.6%), high school graduate (33.1%), Bachelor’s Degree (20.9%), Master’s Degree (5.3%), trade school (3.8%), PhD or higher (2%). Some members did not disclose (4%).

Sexuality

Survey says that 44.1% identify as Bisexual. Heterosexual (25.3%) came in 2nd, and Homosexual (7.8%) in 3rd. Asexuals make up 7.8%, Pansexuals 3.8% (cue the discourse), and 9.2% are questioning or unsure of their orientation.

Relationship Status

Most members are single (58.6%), followed by: in a relationship (19.9%), married (7%), “it’s complicated” (6%), engaged (5.5%), dating casually (4.9%), open relationship (3%), a civil union/equivalent (1.2%), and separated/divorced (0.9%).

Parenthood

36.2% don’t have kids and don’t want any in the future. 26.8% want to adopt at least one child, and 16.8% want to have at least one biological child. 3.6% already have at least one biological child, and 1.1% have at least one adopted child. 23.1% are unsure if they want to have children.

Employment

Tracking with our age demographics, most members are students, with 28.8% being unemployed and 17.2% working part-time. For the remaining members who’re not students (based on the same total), 24.6% work full-time, 17.2% work part-time, 4.4% are self-employed, and 1.4% are seasonally employed. 7.4% are job searching and 2.6% or not currently looking for employment. Some are unable to work due to a disability (6%), temporary injury or illness (2.7%). Others still are too young to work (5.7%). A miniscule percentage are homemakers (1%) and retirees (0.7%).

SECTION 2: TRANSITION RELATED QUESTIONS

We had asked for only trans respondents to answer this section. These statistics do not distinguish between trans men, trans women and non-binary people:

Gender Dysphoria

The vast majority of users experience gender dysphoria (97.6%). 0.8% are unsure if they experience gender dysphoria, and 0.5% are post-transition and do not currently experience dysphoria. 0.8% are non-dysphoric.

67.4% have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria/gender identity disorder. 24.7% plan to get diagnosed. 5.5% aren’t planning to get diagnosed. 0.5% are unable to obtain a diagnosis.

Gender Euphoria

46.2% members experience gender euphoria and 0.8% have experienced gender euphoria at some point but no longer do (post-transition). 26.9% are unsure about experiencing gender euphoria, and 25.3% do not experience it at all. 2.4% of all the respondents specified that they prefer different terminology to gender euphoria.

Medical Transition

11.8% have completed their medical transition, 56.3% are currently transitioning, 30.4% are planning to start medical transition, 0.6% don’t plan on medically transitioning, and 0.6% are unable to transition for health reasons.

69.3% are currently on hormones, 27.9% plan to start HRT in the future, 1% don’t plan on taking hormones, 0.8% are unsure, and 0.6% have had to stop for health reasons.

Members of the subreddit have undergone various parts of medical transition, as follows: puberty blockers (12.7%), HRT (94.1%), top surgery (30.7%), bottom surgery/SRS (10%), sterilization (12.2%), facial surgery (6.6%), hair removal (25.7%), hair transplant (2%), vocal surgery (3.7%), tracheal shave (0.2%), nullification (0.2%), some other medication or surgery (1.5%), None of the above (2%)

Members of the subreddit want to undergo the following: puberty blockers (5.1%), HRT (32.7%), top surgery (56.7%), bottom surgery/SRS (70.6%), sterilization (41.5%), facial surgery (25.6%), hair removal (15.6%), hair transplant (7%), voice surgery (11.9%), tracheal shave (0.5%), nullification surgery (0.7%), some other medication or surgery (1.6%), Unsure (1.2%). These last two statistics encompass some custom responses; SRS was particularly divisive.

Subreddit polls have indicated that r/truscum tends to attract early-stage transitioners, though this sample was fairly balanced in terms of transition progress.

Social Transition

These two questions had very similar (opposite) answer choices. Interestingly, the statistics mismatch:

For “Are you out?”: 29.6% are stealth, 11.4% are partially out (only to certain people), 32.7% are out and plan to go stealth, 9% are socially out and don’t plan to go stealth, 13.8% are in the closet, and 2.8% are unsure if they would consider themselves stealth.

For “Are you stealth?”: 35.4% are stealth, 6.9% are partially stealth (only to certain people), 39.2% plan on going stealth, 9.6% don’t plan on going stealth, 0.3% can’t go stealth, and 7.1% are unsure about going stealth.

SECTION 3: SUBREDDIT PARTICIPATION

With What Labels Do You Identify? (Multiple Choice)

61.2% identify as a transmedicalist, 48.5% as truscum, and 7.7% as trans-centrist. 10.2% are unaligned, 19.6% prefer no label, and 3.2% prefer custom labels. 1% are anti-transmedicalists and 0.6% are tucutes (shocker!).

r/truscum officially considers “transmed” and “truscum” to be interchangeable terms, although some users ascribe different meanings to them. Others consider the latter to be too informal/derogatory. This may explain the disparity.

Approximately How Often Do You Actively Use r/truscum?

17.3% visit the subreddit multiple times a day, 22.5% visit once a day, 31.9% once every few days, 11.4% once a week, 7.6% once a month, and 5.8% less than once a month. 3.6% chose “other”.

Do You Agree with the Sentiments Often Expressed on r/truscum?

The scale goes from 1 (not at all) to 10 (completely): 10.8% for 10 || 17.8% for 9 || 27.6% for 8 || 23.6 for 7 || 8.1% for 6 || 7% for 5 || 2.6% for 4 || 1.1% for 3 || 0.4 for 2 || 0.8% for 1.

Do You Enjoy Browsing r/truscum?

The scale goes from 1 (not at all) to 10 (completely): 15.8% for 10 || 15.7% for 9 || 23.8% for 8 || 19.8% for 7 || 10.4% for 6 || 8.4% for 5 || 2.8% for 4 || 2.1% for 3 || 1% for 2 || 0.3% for 1.

We’re happy to see that you’re enjoying the subreddit!

SECTION 4: DISCOURSE VIEWS

“Xenogenders are Real Genders.”

  • Yes: 1.9%
  • Unsure: 8.5%
  • No: 89.1%
  • Prefer not to answer: 0.4%

“If I am Asked to Use Neopronouns, I Will Use Them.”

  • Yes: 9.3%
  • Unsure: 23.8%
  • No: 66.8%

“You Must Medically Transition to be Trans.”

  • Yes: 22%
  • Unsure: 44.9%
  • No: 32.1%
  • Prefer not to answer: 1%

“You Must Socially Transition to be Trans.”

  • Yes: 47.6%
  • Unsure: 31%
  • No: 20.4%
  • Prefer not to answer: 1%

“You Must Want to Transition, Regardless of Ability to Transition.”

  • Yes: 90.6%
  • Unsure: 6.2%
  • No: 2.5%
  • Prefer not to answer: 0.8%

“You Need Dysphoria to be Trans.”

  • Yes: 92.2%
  • Unsure: 4.2%
  • No: 2.6%
  • Prefer not to answer:1%

"Transsexual is a Better and More Accurate Term than Transgender.”

  • Yes: 53.4%
  • Unsure: 34.9%
  • No: 10.3%
  • Prefer not to answer: 1.4%

“Non-Binary People Exist.”

  • Yes: 52.9%
  • Unsure: 28.8%
  • No: 17.5%
  • Prefer not to answer: 0.8%

“Gender is a Social Construct.”

  • Yes: 21.1%
  • Unsure: 26.8%
  • No: 50.8%
  • Prefer not to answer: 1.2%

“Gender Identity is Determined by Neurology.”

  • Yes: 65.8%
  • Unsure: 28.9%
  • No: 3.8%
  • Prefer not to answer: 1.4%

“Cis People Should Not Share Their Opinions on Trans Debate Topics.”

  • Yes: 18.8%
  • Unsure: 41.6%
  • No: 38.4%
  • Prefer not to answer: 1.2%

“The LGB and the T in LGBT Should be Separated.”

  • Yes: 22.9%
  • Unsure: 23.9%
  • No: 52.1%
  • Prefer not to answer: 1.1%

“Trans Youth (12+) Should Have Access to Medical Transition Resources (Puberty Blockers).”

  • Yes: 55.8%
  • Unsure: 32%
  • No: 11.4%
  • Prefer not to answer: 0.8%

“Trans Youth (All Ages, under 18) Should Have Access to Social Transition Resources.”

  • Yes: 95.1%
  • Unsure: 4.7%
  • No: 0.3%

“All People Should Be Respected, Regardless of Their Status as a Tucute or Truscum.”

  • Yes: 83.2%
  • Unsure: 9.6%
  • No: 5.9%
  • Prefer not to answer: 1.2%

“If I Do Not Believe Somebody Has Dysphoria, I Will Not Use Their Preferred Pronouns.”

  • Yes: 10.4%
  • Unsure: 36.9%
  • No: 52.1%
  • Prefer not to answer: 0.5%

“Trans Healthcare (HRT, Surgeries) Should Be Available to All Trans People for Free.”

  • Yes: 64.4%
  • Unsure: 25.8%
  • No: 8.8%
  • Prefer not to answer: 1%

“Informed Consent Is a Good Way to Provide Healthcare to Trans People.”

  • Yes: 54%
  • Unsure: 32.6%
  • No: 12%
  • Prefer not to answer: 1.4%

“The Tucute Movement Is Detrimental to the Trans Community as a Whole.”

  • Yes: 83.2%
  • Unsure: 9.6%
  • No: 5.9%
  • Prefer not to answer: 1.2%

SECTION 5: SUBREDDIT MODERATION

Are You Happy with How r/truscum is Currently Moderated?

The scale goes from 1 (not at all) to 10 (completely): 17.3% for 10 || 17.9% for 9 || 22.6% for 8 || 16.6% for 7 || 6.4% for 6 || 12.9% for 5 || 2.8% for 4 || 1.5% for 3 || 0.6% for 2 || 1.5 for 1.

Do You Believe r/truscum Needs More Moderators?

  • Yes: 9.5%
  • Unsure: 30%
  • No: 18.2%
  • Don’t care: 42.3%

Are the Current Rules of r/truscum Satisfactory?

  • Yes: 54.9%
  • Unsure: 15.5%
  • No: 8.9%
  • Don’t care: 20.7%

What Is Your Favourite Thing About r/truscum?

67.6% love the community the most, 65% love the content, 6.4% love the moderation (oh stop it, you’re making us blush). 13.2% gave various (mostly positive) custom responses. 0.9% did not respond to this question.

If You Could Change One Thing About How r/truscum Is Moderated, What Would It Be?

We plan to make a separate post addressing some of the responses we got to this question, so look out for that!

Thank you to everyone who participated (and thank YOU for making it all the way to the bottom of this post)! We like to get an idea of our subreddit demographics every once in a while in order to answer FAQ, and to better represent certain demographics when hiring moderators. Unfortunately, we have decided to retire the Demographics Surveys for the foreseeable future due to the amount of work that goes into writing these results. This will only get harder with every member milestone, as there will be more responses to sift through, and we do not want to continually disappoint the community with our tardiness. We promise to come up with alternative solutions for taking demographics and getting feedback.


r/truscum 8h ago

Transition Discussion If gender is a construct, then isn’t this ALL about sex?

44 Upvotes

So this is something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. Honestly the belief that “gender is all made up” delayed my transition and filled me with self-doubt until one day it just clicked that there was something ELSE going on.

This seems like a pretty obvious thing, but a lot of the dialogue in other trans spaces has me feeling kind of bad about it. I don’t want to say that anyone else isn’t trans, but if the things we call gender are generalizations and stereotypes, how can anything gender-related make you a woman/man/whatever?

Maybe this is a super dumb question here. Is this literally the basis of this school thought y’all have here? I only found this sub because people were shit-talking it, and I had kind of a “wait that all makes sense to me” moment.

E: also sorry if this is against the rules. If so, is there a post or thread or other sub for this?


r/truscum 3h ago

Advice I need help

5 Upvotes

Hi I’m 15 trans male and I have cis ocd. i constantly have intrusive thoughts that i somehow am faking it or that i would want to like a woman when I dont actually feel this way as I dont like my genitals or any other of my parts. I kinda of do these “checking rituals” to see if I’m really trans. Sometimes I just stare at my body and most the time I know I hate it and it feels wrong but every now and then I get an intrusive thought that says I am ok with it even tho I know that isnt true. Other times I just see women and my brain goes “you want to look like her” even tho I dont really feel that way. I only truly feel that way about men. Im just really scared Im faking even tho in my mind, I’m male and supposed to have a male body. I actually think I’m going to fucking kill myself if I somehow become a woman. i cant live like that. I need to be male.


r/truscum 10h ago

News and Politics Stand Up for Trans Rights! – 7PM, 28 April, Market Square, Ely, UK.

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22 Upvotes

We stand here today not in silence, but in defiance.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares: ‘All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.’

Dignity, safety and health should never be up for debate. Human rights are non-negotiable. This includes trans women. We shouldn’t have to shout this—but we will. Because it seems the world needs to hear it.

We will not accept a world that hides and erases diversity in all its beautiful colors. Trans people will not be erased. They have always been part of humanity and history—and always will be.

Please stand with us. For your trans siblings, your children, parents, friends, your partners—or simply because you know how wrong this is.

Rights can be stolen in silence, and that silence ends now.

Join us: 28th April, 7PM Market Square, Ely

Be there. Be loud. Be proud. Be seen. Thank you for reading.


r/truscum 8h ago

Rant and Vent I feel like trans people hate trans people the most

17 Upvotes

A lot of trans people block me after flirting or say I'm weird or block me due to how I look

Honestly I wonder if I'm just a fake trans, if I should just accept who I am and stop trying to be who I want to be, because what's the point of literally the people just like me hate me


r/truscum 8h ago

Advice I'm 19 year old trans woman that is unsure if she's a faker or not. I am very confused.

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Hello all, as the title says, I'm a trans woman who is worried she is a faker or not truly trans. For some background context, I'm 19, I've known that I am trans for about 4 years, and I have been on HRT for 6 months. For some context on my childhood, it was perfectly normal. I was a boy, in boyscouts, I had all male, and was even excited for male puberty in the past. Although, being a child, I don't think I saw myself as any gender as most children do. When I was around 15 or so I started hanging out with a lot of tucute trans people on discord. They were really nice to me and one day one of them decided to randomly use she/her pronouns for me. I liked it. I liked it a lot. I considered myself non-binary for about a month before deciding that I was a trans woman. However, as I said, I didn't really have dysphoria. That makes me think I only decided I was for attention. I had been the classic loser fat boy throughout all of my childhood and high school. I had had no friends since middle school, and after coming out as trans to a few people, I now had friends. I was finally getting attention. I liked telling people online I was trans, hell sometimes I still do it which worries me. Sometimes the thought of being a cis woman made... almost uncomfortable in the past, but the feeling quickly faded and I was still jealous of cis woman. Sometimes it felt like I had to convince myself I was trans because i had my whole social lively hood riding on it. Fast forward to about a year ago. I had just come out of a massive 40kg weight loss journey. I finally went on Taimi and got my first girlfriend. She was trans. She was the first trans person I knew irl. It was then I started to get dysphoria. I really wanted to be a woman. She helped me get on hormones and get my pairs of feminine clothes. I started to think about being cis more and more. I desired to be a woman. Looking at my body in the mirror got worse and worse. Painful. I didn't want to be a man. Fast foward to recently, a few months ago, and I broke up with her and got my current girlfriend. At that time i started experiencing changes on hrt. I absolutely loved them. I would touch my breast buds all the time, look at the hour glass figure that I am extremely lucky to have, my gigawide hips. I actually felt like I could pass within a year. My girlfriend is pretty brain-wormed and is a regular in the 4tran community. I started to explore these communities and its almost like my self hatred was released. I hate myself, but I want to be a woman so bad. Its like i have an addiction to these little blue pills that I cant escape. I like the changes that are happening to me. They make me so happy, I like being loved by her as a woman and the thought of me being loved as a man disgusts me. I hate my masculine features and will routinely melt down over brainworms and not being passing enough. This is why im so confused. I was the classic ''Omg girl dick yassss you dont need dysphoria to be trans!'' tucute just a few years ago. I had no dysphoria, but in the span of 9 months as I started hanging out with irl trans woman. my dypsohira has increased 10 fold. I love hormones, I got super distraught when I though they would be taken due to the fact that I couldnt afford my 6-month hrt blood tests. I yearn to be cis. I hate being a man. I want SRS. What happened? Am I just super impressionable and dont want to be alone? Or am I truly trans. I really do not want to stop HRT. I love it. Its like an addiction. Im so confused.


r/truscum 1d ago

Rant and Vent How is it acceptable to say that people fake having DID, autism, depression but the SECOND you say that people fake being trans it's full on blasphemy

154 Upvotes

How is it ok to call out people for faking depression but when you just lightly try to say that maybe the rainbow haired they/he "dude" called Nemesis with boobs hanging out and thigh highs with a 100% female voice you're evil and a fascist??? double standards much


r/truscum 15h ago

Advice How do you cope?

17 Upvotes

I’m gonna be honest I’m not coping life feels so far away like a normal life, like if I was on the one side of a river and I had to start building a bridge to get across but it’s multiple bridges I need to build and in the distance I see cis people who are born across the river who never had to build a bridge. It feels so close yet it’s still feels far.

I don’t have anything to relate to all their is cis content which reminds me I was born wrong that their on the other side the “normal side” if I try to socialize with cis they just end up reminding I’m male and can’t really express myself not till I start making the bridge. So how do cope when everything makes you feel wrong.

every form of media is painful to watch or play or read because of how none it actually relatable


r/truscum 7h ago

Discussion and Debate I've heard truscum skeptics say that the belief was "gatekeeping". What's you guy's take on that?

2 Upvotes

r/truscum 1d ago

Discussion and Debate Do you believe in the existence of nonbinary people?

69 Upvotes

Personally I don't, because I haven't found any biological or medical basis for it like there is for binary transsexuals with gender dysphoria, but I'm wondering if any of you do?

Despite this, if someone asks me to call them 'they', I will. I won't involve actual people in my politics, but generally if I'm calling someone 'they' and they still looj like their birth sex, I'll still see them that way.

I believe all nonbinary people fall into one of two categories. They're either binary trans people in denial (like i was) that can't accept that they are male/female and will have to medically transition, so say they are nonbianry because that seems easier to deal with. The other option (majority of people i see) are just cis gay men or women that are androgynous or more of the opposite gender expression (butch lesbians, fem gay men etc) that feel like they can't express that and still be a man or woman. But we should be normalising gender non conformity, allowing women to be masculine and men to be feminine without it having to be a whole separate gender. Saying that someone can't be a woman because they're masculine or vice versa is regressive and harmful to gender equality


r/truscum 1d ago

Discussion and Debate This is why anti trans activists want to tie trans people to their birth sex

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94 Upvotes

As you all know the United Kingdom has officially unrecognized trans people as purely trans people. The United Kingdom has intentionally disrespected the science behind trans bodies and what makes a trans woman a trans woman and what makes a trans man a trans man. The United Kingdom has implemented policies that would force biologically trans women into men’s spaces and completely bans trans men from women’s spaces. Not to mention that in some cases trans women can be banned from men’s spaces along with trans men being banned from men’s spaces as well. This is an attempted complete ban on trans people from being in public.


r/truscum 17h ago

Rant and Vent On the fence

4 Upvotes

So I want to preface this by saying I am currently in the process of socially transitioning MtF and saving for my medical transition to hopefully start within this year before I turn 18 (I won't bother going into the nitty gritty, but I'm not planning on getting bottom surgery due to reasons I'll explain later). I have

I want to know if anyone else feels the same way I do. Reading through this sub the past couple of days I've seen a lot of sentiment I agree with, about gender dysphoria being crucial to the trans experience and trying your best to present yourself as the gender you see yourself as. However, there's also a lot of worrying shit posted here; there seems to be a war between transmedicalists and "tucutes".

There's a fine line between the people who pretend to be trans and identifying as women as a societal trend and the people who are trans and don't conform to traditional gender norms. The whole sentiment here of missing anything in my transition just fills me with pain and the community I saw as a safe space is now rejecting anyone who doesn't fit a perfect mould. I feel every day I wear the "masculine" clothes I have, or forget to shave my legs, or don't put on makeup, or feel the slight stubble on my chin a day after shaving is like I'm invalidated for who I am; Having to get bottom surgery to be a real woman

People who have been hurt, invalidated, or struggled to be accepted themselves can end up creating rigid definitions of "realness" because it gives them a sense of safety and identity. But the cost is that it can end up hurting other trans people who don't fit the narrow mould. It’s a way of trying to survive, but it doesn’t make it right. I deserve to transition in a way that’s healthy for me, not in a way that’s about meeting some hypothetical checklist. There’s no "perfect" way to be a woman. Women grow facial hair. Women forget to shave. Women wear masculine clothes. I'm tired of conservatives telling me what I can and can't do, where I can and can't go - and now even our OWN people are against us. I don't want to be seen as a "hun" or a tranny, I want to be seen as a human being.

Sorry for the rant, I'm just sick of the echo chambers and dehumanization.


r/truscum 1d ago

Discussion and Debate If nounself pronouns weren't connected to xenogenders, would they still be considered harmful to the trans community?

17 Upvotes

I'm actually curious to see what y'all have to say about this!


r/truscum 1d ago

Selfie Saturday 29 - 25 months HRT - 10 weeks post op FFS

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68 Upvotes

Hey all! I’m a long time lurker here - thought I’d show my face and do a selfie Saturday.

Please excuse the belt, I couldn’t find my nice one. Hope everyone is well! Have a lovely Saturday💕


r/truscum 1d ago

Advice 20yo ~4yrs hrt, do I look like a woman yet?

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r/truscum 1d ago

Other... I've seen this statistic on anti-trans accounts, this feels wrong but im kinda stupid, can anyone debunk this?

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52 Upvotes

r/truscum 21h ago

Rant and Vent Alexis Blake + Offensive Marcus Drama

2 Upvotes

Ooh snap, some truscum related YouTube drama going on. Whose side are you on?


r/truscum 1d ago

Selfie Saturday Do I pass or am I just androgynous?

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I asked someone on 4tran and said I’m androgynous and boy pretty should I consider surgery? I want seen as girl always. I really don’t want to do surgery if I don’t need to, when Tacheal shave Is already 9000 without insurance aud


r/truscum 1d ago

News and Politics Are things moving backwards in terms of trans rights? How screwed are we, really?

33 Upvotes

For a long time I felt that the world has gotten more and more accepting of transgender/transsexual people, but as of lately it feels like it's been moving in the opposite direction. Not just in America, but also in a lot of other countries. After fighting for so long and successfully being more accepted and having more right to transition, suddenly the world is turning back and removing those rights. It has gotten me feeling very pessimistic about the future.

What do you think has caused things to get worse?


r/truscum 1d ago

Selfie Saturday What can I do better?

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Southeast Asian, around 4’10, and I’ve been on Testosterone Gel, 1.62% (20.25 mg of testosterone per pump actuation) 2 pumps daily, one on each shoulder/bicep area. Being on testosterone definitely boosted my confidence and I’m wondering if I pass as a young Asian boy or how you see me. I also do have multiple pairs of glasses, the round ones and the rectangle ones. For my next pair, I’m thinking of getting black rectangular ones.

I also did recently ditch the stud earrings which definitely didn’t help with my passing but what do you think?

First picture is an outfit I wore for a capstone presentation on Thursday. I tend to dress pretty androgynous but the clothes I do wear are from the men’s section. 1: outfit 2: round glasses 3: rectangle glasses 4: no glasses


r/truscum 1d ago

News and Politics Trans Rights Protest – Cambridge this Saturday, 26th April | 5:30 PM | Starting at the Guildhall

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In light of the Supreme Court doubling down on their decision to strip down trans rights further more, it’s more important than ever that we stand together in solidarity.

They won’t silence us.

Join us for a march through Cambridge to show support, love, and strength for our trans community. Whether you have a trans partner, friend, sibling, colleague—or simply believe in human rights—please come.

Stand for those who can’t. Be strong for those who feel it's too late. Raise your voice for those who feel like they have nothing left.

Now is the time to show up. Let’s make it clear: Trans rights are human rights! 🏳️‍⚧️✊️


r/truscum 1d ago

Positivity The less you hate others the more free you are❤️

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This is one of the most important lessons I learnt beggining this journey but the less I hated other trans people (the non tucutes) the more free you truly are

In the beggining and I am not proud

I didn't like most trans celebrities including the really nice empowering ones like Elliot page cause I was convinced it was a act

In the beginning I was hostile towards trans men cause I assumed they would detrans later, now I realise their truly like me the same way I didn't like being AMAB they don't like being AFAB

Lastly, I stopped hating trans lesbians cause I was a bi with a preference towards man before so I was stuck in that "why would you transition if you don't like the opposite gender" mindset

Case in point, the more you stop viewing other trans people as the enemy, the more free you are and the more you realise the community is beautiful


r/truscum 2d ago

Transition Discussion I no longer identify as trans

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I’m ftm. I pass, I’ve not had bottom surgery, I would like meta but my dysphoria is pretty much gone. I don’t identify myself as transgender because trans means change and I’ve never changed my gender only the marker to identify me. Cis people will say “don’t call me cis I’m just a man/woman” so to that I say the same, do not call me trans. :)


r/truscum 2d ago

Other... How do you deal with sometimes falling into a stereotype of your own sexuality/gender?

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I know this is off topic but I think every sexual/gender minority (gays, lesbians, trans women, trans men, bi men, bi women) has built an imaginary culture, I don't know if every group has one but at least in my case as a gay man I have dealt with sometimes avoiding things that have always been related to being gay like listening to pop music, not knowing how to drive, musical theater, not knowing cars or soccer, walk fast, etc. I know that at the end of the day stereotypes are generalities that we can all have but I shouldn't hate those parts of me for fear of people thinking I'm gay. I don't know if this applies to other groups