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The original was posted on /r/transmedical by /u/Important-Mixture819 on 2024-11-08 22:05:25+00:00.

While I have strong skepticism against, I personally am open to the idea of genuine non-binary transness. Have I ever encountered it? No. I think that genuine non-binary dysphoria would need to fit at least these three criteria:

1. A Distinctive Nonbinary Sex-Dysphoria (Psycho-Physical, with clear need for a ‘nonbinary’ physical sex configuration)
2. Dysphoria that is understandable to other people with dysphoria, despite them having different forms (like being trans men or trans women)
3. The origins of these feelings being Pre-Social and Pervasive throughout life in retrospect

So far, I have only encountered or interacted with nonbinary people who fit these categories:

1. Do Not Have Dysphoria At All
2. They claim to have dysphoria, but when they elaborate, it clearly is of social origins (Gender expectations, roles, expression, etc.)
3. They Do have genuine Sex-Dysphoria, but it is clearly Binary despite their identity as Nonbinary.

None of these fit the criteria for a genuine and distinct nonbinary experience that falls underneath the trans umbrella. Current conceptions of Nonbinary are not trans, but are a form of Social Gender Nonconformity.

I just wanted to outline this for people who think that our skepticism of nonbinary is hateful, when it’s really just a deduction based on how the experience of transness works, and how it is easily relatable and identifiable to other trans people regardless of direction of transition. Further illustrated by the fact that nonbinary identities have, and can only be, studied from a social angle due to the ambiguity and diversity in nonbinary identities.

These points clearly have implications when considering the medical aspect and necessity of treatment of gender-sex dysphoria. And it goes to show that the elimination of gender dysphoria as a criteria for transness is directly necessary for the inclusion of nonbinary identities within transness, despite this elimination opening it up for any form of social gender deviation, completely dissolving the distinct nature of what trans people are and what we need in terms of medical care and social considerations. Nonbinary, to be considered under the “trans umbrella”, needs to demonstrate a distinctive Non-binary Gender-Sex Dysphoria. Something that to me, until proven otherwise, does not exist.