Purpose

Since the early 1900s up until the early 2000s, transsexualism was understood to be a medical condition. A contingent of gender nonconformists in the gay rights movement began attempting to associate themselves with our condition for their own benefit beginning in the 1990s. By the early 2010s, they successfully managed to conflate their nonconformity with a severe medical disorder. This has resulted in cascading effects across the medical, scientific, media, political, and social landscapes for sufferers of our condition. The institutions that are meant to treat and support us have shifted their favor to people we have little in common with.

We have a very simple mission: To promote transsexualism as a medical condition, de-politicize it, and ensure our legal right to transition through healthcare and the ability to change our legal sex. Our aims are as follows:

Reinstitute Stringent Medical Criteria

Transsexualism is defined by an innate understanding of oneself as being of the opposite sex and a deep seated disconnect and revulsion at the primary and secondary sex characteristics of the natal sex. These symptoms must be present from childhood, even if the individual was not able to find treatment until later in life. Those born with transsexualism should be separated and thus given priority to healthcare required to treat our condition over anyone else seeking access to what is conventionally known as gender-affirming care (GAC).

Restore Scientific Standards

Medical research into our condition is straying further and further from useful as a result of those who self-identify as trans but are not born with transsexualism. It is now common to find studies on our pathology including people in our cohort who are gender nonconformists or self-identify as “trans” without the clinical symptoms of transsexualism. This undermines the integrity of scientific work in this field and hurts those with transsexualism.

Divorce Transsexualism from Gender Nonconformists

We are not part of the movement of people who consider themselves nonbinary, transgender, or a variety of other self-ascribed identities under the “trans umbrella” who do not present with the clinical symptoms of transsexualism. We do not, nor have we ever, wanted to be a part of academic gender theories such as those promoted by Judith Butler and many LGBTQ+ organizations. They use us for their benefit and often spread misinformation about our condition.

Enshrine Political Protections

We are under constant political and personal attack from multiple angles. None of this is justified. We want our right to our medical care, changing our documents, nondiscrimination clauses, and to simply existing as normal members of society to be protected. Laws should never infringe on our treatment; they should only work to protect it.

We are a group of people only connected by our condition, not by our backgrounds. We are diverse in many ways and have no ulterior political aims.