Transmedicalism

Transmedicalism is the idea that being transgender is primarily a medical issue related to the incongruence between an individual's assigned sex at birth and their gender identity, characterized by gender dysphoria. There are divides and debates within the transmedicalist community on the exact definition of who is or is not transgender. Many transmedicalists believe individuals who identify as transgender without experiencing gender dysphoria or desiring to undergo a medical transition through methods such as hormone replacement therapy or sex reassignment surgery are not genuinely transgender. They may also exclude those who identify themselves as non-binary from the trans label.

Transmedicalists are sometimes referred to as transmeds and truscum, a term coined by a user on microblogging website Tumblr, meaning "true transsexual scum", which has since been reappropriated. Those who believe that gender dysphoria is not required to be transgender are sometimes called tucute, meaning "too cute to be cisgender". Transmedicalists sometimes refer to those who identify as transgender without medicalized criteria as transtrenders.

Some critics view transmedicalism akin to the medical model of disability in that it medicalizes an attribute that contains both medical and social components.