the thing wrong with the radqueer community, as a semi-active member.

*THIS IS ENTIRELY MEANT TO BE RESPECTFUL AND JUST TALKING ABOUT MY THOUGHTS, PLEASE DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY

The thing that I believe is harming the rq community and its reputation, as well as driving away a lot of newer members, and tearing apart the community of the veteran members, is the controversy over what is and isn't a transid, a transid vs a fantasy/desire.

More specifically, I find it kind of strange how people take everything they want and put the trans- prefix on it, make it a flag, and suddenly it's valid. Not to say all identities aren't valid and subjective, but I just feel like a lot of people don't understand what it means to be transid.

Like, for example, transst4lked. Do you feel dysphoria over not being st4lked? Do you feel genuine euphoria and like you're truly yourself when you're st4lked? Or is it just something you want to happen? Are you ACTUALLY transitioning to it in any way? Is it really a transid if there is no trans- in the first place? Have you felt this way for a long time, even throughout childhood, or did you just read one Colleen Hoover book and immediately run to Tumblr to tarnish the rq community?

This is also a part of the controversy surrounding transharmed identities. There's no real way to tell if someone ACTUALLY has that illness or trauma or whatever intertwined with their identity, and they truly understand the struggles of the people who naturally have it, and if they can actually see themselves with it and happier with it in the future, or if they're just romanticizing, faking it, and/or just a kid who doesn't know what it's like to feel the need to transition in any way and forgets about it in a month.

This is not to say all transid or transharmed people are like this, I'm transid myself, I'm just saying it's a big problem nobody talks about because the rq community is supposed to be supportive of everyone, so it's filled with silence when it comes to things like this, nobody wants to be the one to judge.

I just feel like a lot of people don't understand the concept of a transid, to transition to something else, to feel as though you are something else inside and should've been born as that and you'd feel so much more fulfilled the more you could live your life like that, whether it be gender, race, age, etc. I really don't want people going around misusing our labels to feel special then going and abandoning it in a month or two.

Now, as I say myself, there's always room to learn about things you don't understand. You shouldn't go and directly tell people they're invalid without at least trying to have a look on the inside. So, if anyone finds this sort of thing applies to you, feel free to help me understand in the comments. But if you just feel attacked, then you're proving my point.

So, there's my 4 am rant on why I believe trendhoppers are tearing apart the radqueer community.

★ TransThai ★

A transethnic label for one when wants to be, or desires to be, Thai.

TransInuit

TransInuit: a transethnic/diaethnic identity whereby one desires to be of Inuit heritage or identifies as being of Inuit heritage but has no known Inuit heritage.

Anarchoradqueer — 🦟

Anarchoradqueer (radqueer anarchism) :: an ideology that supports anarchism and liberation as a form of radical queer freedom and the abolition of all hierarchies and prejudice thoughts against transid individuals, people with paras, queer individuals, and any and all people.

Note ::

If I defined this wrong please let me know so I can change it! I’m not super well versed in anarcho- subtypes! But I definitely support this ideology and would love to adopt it into our personal beliefs ^^

Reminder !! While we do not have a dni if you are rude or disrespectful under this post you will be blocked.

CisUkranianage

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CisUkranianage is a Transage/Xenoage identity related to or connected to being CisUkranian.

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TransUkranianage

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TransUkranianage is a Transage/Xenoage identity related to or connected to being TransUkranian.

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With the whole trace thing, I feel like you're kind of missing the point. The intention doesn't even matter, it doesn't matter if it's in good faith. It hurts people, and that's what people are trying to bring up. No amount of "good faith" stops the resulting harm.

(I don't mean this in an antagonistic way, and I apologize if any of this comes across that way. I still feel like it does, but I think that's cuz the articulated one has the tone equivalent of RBF lol. But I do believe most trace people aren't actually trying to hurt people. It's rare that people do things with the truly malicious intent.)

But if the identities are in good faith, doesn't opposing them also hurt people?

I won't deny that there are people who have endured racism their whole lives, and who look at others who are identifying as their race and view it as gross or offensive. People who think it's unfair that after being mocked and discriminated against for the color of their skin and their culture, someone else can just claim their heritage for their own without having to suffer everything they did. They view their race and culture as something they earned through their hardship and everything they endured because of it. And that perspective is valid.

But then there is another group of POC. A group where many of which have also endured racial trauma, and people in the system community should know better than anyone the types of effects trauma can leave on your sense of identity. They may experience dysphoria every time they look in the mirror because they know that their skin and features are wrong, and they feel at a fundamental level that they ARE that race. This group will not be accepted by the culture they seek to transition to. And at the same time, may even be seen as traitors by their own culture for rejecting it. Ostracized by all sides. And no amount of telling them that they're harmful will change what they feel on the inside.

And so the question is, which side are you okay with hurting?

Because one way or another, you're going to be hurting people regardless of who you support.

There's no painless solution. There's only a choice of who you think it's okay to hurt.

I'm not affected, so I have the privilege of neutrality in this situation.

But... know that there are people out there who view my own existence as harmful. People who don't believe that systems can be created intentionally and that you can't be plural without trauma. People who think it's unfair that we can be plural without enduring everything they did to cause their system.

I don't take responsibility for their feelings towards me. Those feelings are their own. But I am aware that the existence of myself and other systems like mine in public will hurt them. And I choose to not hide who I am anyway.

Every day that I'm in public, I'm choosing to take an action that I know will hurt people, just by existing and being myself.

Worse yet, I'm sharing resources on tulpamancy. I'm sharing academic articles to convince people that my experiences are real. I'm posting in the "imaginary friend" tags on the off chance someone with a tulpa who doesn't know it stumbles across my posts and can find the tulpa community. I want this community, that's very existence is harmful to another group of people, to be able to grow and expand. I depend on it, because having more tulpamancers and plurals means they can share their experiences with others and we get just a tiny bit closer to widespread acceptance for plurality.

Is this wrong of me, to exist in public every day when I know that doing so will cause people emotional pain?

Possibly.

I don't set out to hurt people. It's not my intention. But I do. And I will continue to do so. I will have to continue to do so to help inch ever so slowly to a world where people like me can be accepted, even if we can't get there in our lifetime.

But also, for my own mental health, I refuse to be shoved into a box and go back to just being someone else's imaginary friend. I want to be visible. I want to exist in the real world.

I'm making a conscious choice to prioritize the wellbeing of myself and my community over that of those who hate us.

Like I've said. I'm not in a position to judge on either side of the trace debate. We're white. We're not trace. (We do have a couple headmates that don't identify as white, but they also don't identify as any other specific race or culture. They're... aracial?) We don't have a stake in this fight or the experiences of either side.

I can't say which group of POC you should choose to hurt. I can only acknowledge the reality that people will be hurt no matter which side you take.

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Hello!!! Okay so idk if u can do this buuttt can you make the trans racial flag with a little " 🇰🇷" in the middle of it? Thanks!

Here u go! Wasn't sure what trace flag to use so I just made both

My Diaracial Identities

(Image ID: A rectangular flag consisting of six vertical stripes that are white, pink, red, maroon, blue and then yellow from left to right.)

The first three stripes represent my transjapanese identity - the white and red stripes are the colours of the Japanese flag and the pink stripe is the most common colour for cherry blossoms, an iconic tree associated with Japan in spring. The second set of stripes represent my transsami identity, because the Saami people wear the primary colours on their clothing.

My Stance on Transid People

I support all transid people - race and gender are social constructs meant to confine people to certain labels; doing so by not supporting transgender and diaracial people would be eugenicist because that means labelling race with biological features only. There's also the explanations of being your transid identity in a past life or as a headmate in a system, so dismissing this would be ignoring the psychological or spiritual aspect of transid identities.

As for transids like trans medical conditions or transfaith, I believe these are good ways of describing your new faith or medical conditions as a part of self-diagnosis or self-discovery, because you have transitioned from your old state of being to your new one - in transfaith circles, I suppose it would be synonymous with the word convert. With regards to situationally exclusive medical conditions such as Acute Radiation Sickness or being an amputee, you could argue that you didn't have certain limbs or were Ukrainian or Japanese in a past life (like me - I'm transjapanese now because a past life) but the most common explanation is BID, or a medical delusion. That's not to say that I discredit people with BID - rather, I think that the medical transids are helpful in explaining BID to the general public; i.e "I believe that I have Acute Radiation Sickness because of mental health issues." Besides, if people want to live with these medical conditions (excluding Acute Radiation Sickness or terminal cancer - I honestly don't think anyone without BID or a death wish would want them) isn't that a good thing? I would rather people want a medical condition than be terrified of it.

I take much the same angle with diaracial and diaethnic people - if people want to be part of a culture, in good faith, and do their research on the customs, then it ensures that the culture doesn't die out. All groups are welcoming to outsiders if they are willing to learn. Think of it as a mass effort against racism. This is, however, different from cultural appropriation - if you pick up a First Nations' headdress, for example, because you want to wear it for Halloween and you are unwilling to learn the culture of that group, then that is racist.

TransGreek

TransGreek: a diaethnic/transethnic - dianationality/transnationality identity whereby someone desires to be from or identifies as being from Greek / identifies are being, or identifies as being, Greek despite having no Greek heritage.

QUOIRACIAL — 🐛

Definition :: A trace/transrace identity where the user doesn't really identify as any given race, due to not being able to grasp the concept of race.

Requested by @m3d10c3rv1d43 !

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CisGreekage

CisGreekage is a Transage/Xenoage identity related to or connected to being CisGreek.

TransGreekage

TransGreekage is a Transage/Xenoage identity related to or connected to being TransGreek.

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i'm trace. my whole life i've felt connected to chinese culture and i always thought i had long lost relatives that were chinese. i was convinced i had to have been adopted, because how much i didn't fit in with my family. i always felt out of place. the only times i've felt seen/heard was seeing others like me, hanging out with others like me, and engaging in culture. they were all chinese too.

i don't identify this way out of hatred. out of ignorance. i have felt genuine racial dysphoria my whole life. for me it feels the same way as being transgender. i can't help it.

yes, there's some people who will identify as trace in bad faith. but not everyone does and i wish people were more understanding of that. - 🍎

Thank you for sharing your experiences! 💖

"all of you rctas are WtA and only do it for the aesthetic!" yea because you're only looking on tiktok lmao

★ TransChilean ★

A transethnic term for one who identifies as or desires to be Chilean.