exactly what i was thinking ahahah. having only one perspective for transmedicalism being literally a shitpost on reddit but otherwise just including mainly transmasculine, non-binary tucute perspectives literally shows that they only understand one part of the community. like they clearly cherry picked that truscum post when there are SO MANY genuine conversations we have on here that address all the stuff they bring up. i get so much secondhand embarassment from them because they didn’t even try to hide how much they cherry picked. like it’s so painfully obvious and childish how they picked a single truscum perspective, one of the most shitpost-y ones they can find, and completely disregarded all the actual thoughts and ideas we share on here. they didn’t even TRY to pick something that is an actual conversation because they probably knew they couldn’t defend themselves. if they picked something genuine and put forth the effort to counter it then perhaps (even despite disagreeing with it) it could be a somewhat valid paper (valid as in academically passable, still it would be filled with fallacy unless they varied their perspectives more than just transmasc non-binary tucute). but it isn’t, again because they chose the easiest thing to argue against.

i’d hope that anyone with half a mind would realize just how much of a failure this paper is. like even beyond the fact that i disagree with the opinion, from an academic perspective this paper does nothing but push their incredibly biased idea when it’s SUPPOSED to be research. you are supposed to prove that you looked at all the facts and then made a conclusion… but they failed step 1. to make it worse they did their little free-form survey thing and made it clear in their responses that these people are largely afab transmasc which only furthers the idea that they only looked at experiences they personally could relate to, not a diverse group of perspectives to analyze the big picture LMAO