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The original was posted on /r/transmedical by /u/Anxious_centipede on 2025-09-28 22:19:54+00:00.

I know this will never happen, but hypothetically…

A lot of these ‘genders’ are just personalities or fashion statements, which I know isn’t a new thing to say. Neopronouns also function practically as nicknames. I don’t want to call someone dogself, but if you have dog inspired theming or fashion and want to be called puppy as a nickname (as stupid as it is), I’d be more respectful of it as long as it’s not presented as a gender. Most these people also use their agab pronouns alongside neo ones, so functionally in society it is just fashion and doesn’t actually say much about their gender, since they still identify as their agab.

Same with transmasc and more popular umbrella terms. I don’t like that the word trans is in it, but I feel like it functions the same as someone just calling themselves butch. Being butch has nothing to do with being trans, it’s about a woman being into masculine fashion. There’s not really a transition happening. If they didn’t call themselves trans then I’d be a little more open to respecting what’s essentially just fashion and body mod choices.

They always say “you’re invalidating my identity!” and it’s like, I’m not really, you’re invalidating mine (even tho I don’t consider being trans an identity). Like, you’re trying to be part of a group and definition you don’t fit and are openly mocking it. Me saying that you aren’t trans and don’t fit the definition/criteria isn’t me invalidating your fashion choices, there would be nothing to ‘invalidate’ if you didn’t try to attach it to being trans.

I feel like if they split up into their own group and stopped co-opting our words, like trans and slang terms for surgeries, then I wouldn’t have an issue. If dogself is doing it as a fashion statement and wants to get scarification on their chest to look cool, I don’t really care, my issue is if they say they are the same as me and their scarification for fashion reasons is the same as my painful experience with dysphoria.

Same with this weird group think and victim complex they have. I highly doubt these people experience genuine transphobia. Not being called a neopronoun while presenting as your agab isn’t transphobia. I also hate when they say something like “now is not the time for trans people to be upset over x issue. We are all the same family and are facing oppression!”, like NO! We have nothing in common, we are not in the same “family”! They have nothing to fear besides people looking at them oddly for their fashion and people not calling them neopronouns. They don’t face the actual hardships that come with being trans, they just want attention and to be victims. If they stopped wanting attention like this and minded their own business and being tucute was a fashion subculture, I wouldn’t even care.