TRANSIDS

This is the non-official carrd for transid information. This carrd was made to educate people on transids; what they are, why they exist, how they originated, ect... If you have any questions, please ask the creator of this carrd, @xyrosins on Tumblr! You may send asks in his ask box and he will answer when he is available and able to. @hamsterfoods on Tumblr also helped with making this carrd, so feel free to ask him questions as well.

WHAT ARE TRANSIDS?

TransID, also known as transidentity, is an umbrella term that refers to an individual that does not identify or correspond with the way society sees them, or the norms that society has set in place. This includes things such as body, abilities, age, race, gender, and species, though it is not only limited to these things.

WHY DO TRANSIDS EXIST?

There is no set reason as to why transIDs exist. Anti-transID people speculate they exist to "mock the experiences of transgender individuals" even though transIDs include transgender people in their experiences. I may seem biased to say this, but I think they exist to show that people struggle in every aspect of life. People can experience dysphoria in any aspect of themselves; their looks, their body type, their gender, their age, their abilities, ect... I personally know countless disabled people who wish they could be able-bodied, and that in itself is dysphoria, or as transid.org describes it as, "atypical dysphoria," this can lead to disabled individuals identifying with transIDs to understand that dysphoria, like a cisplural person identifying as transsinglet because they want to fit into society or because they want to understand their dysphoria; they may transition to become a singlet by forcing a merge upon all of their headmates to become one single state of mind, or force dormancy upon headmates until one alter is the only one left.

WHERE DO TRANSIDS ORIGINATE?

The terms "transsex" and "transgender" rose in popularity in 1966 for those who experienced gender incongruence, which means "a mismatch between a person's internal sense of gender and their assigned sex at birth." Soon, being transgender became more accepted, and along came other terms that used the trans- prefix; transracial started being used in the 1970s to describe those who were adopted into families that were another race, but that person felt connected to their adopted family's race, but later was used to describe anyone with racial incongruence. Transabled was coined in 2004 for those who had body integrity identity disorder (BIID) which is a rare condition where someone has a persistent and intense desire to become physically disabled. People think that 4chan coined transage, but it is believed that the term has been found used online since 2008, with the possibility of being coined on a pro-lgbt+ transage young adults blog in 2005-2010. Then in 2017, trolls from 4chan took over the term and started to associate it with inappropriate topics such as abuse (where the belief the 4channers coined transage came from.) With this came the term transx (or trans-x) being used in early transID spaces, where "x" was meant to represent a placeholder to insert any identity into. However, this term was already being used within the transmedicalist community, because of that transx was discarded and avoided due to harassments from transmedicalists and to avoid transphobic implications of the transmed definition of transx. Due to having to get rid of an old term, they had to find a new one, and transID had been seen being used in the community around this time, quickly growing in popularity. The term was coined on June 4th, 2022, along with the flag & symbol, plus an official carrd, here, but it is unfinished.

MOST COMMONLY USED TRANSIDS.

There are hundreds of transIDs that are used all throughout the community, but there are a few that are commonly seen by people in and outside of the community, and the ones that are most often frowned upon due to the attention they have attracted and popularity they have gained from the amount of people that use them. Most of the "common" transIDs are actually umbrella terms and have subcategories to explain someone's true identity. So someone could say they're transrace, but they are specifically transjapanese! Or transharmed, but they are specifically transsexuallyabused! So it is extremely difficult to pinpoint exactly which transIDs are the most "commonly used" ones. It all depends on the community you surround yourself in. Though, the most popularized transID umbrella terms (that I know of), are transrace, transabled, transage, transharmed, and transharmful. As well as transgender, but we don't want to offend the "real transgenders" by including them in transID stuff, do we? Another one that is popular due to the negativity that surrounds it, as well as endogenics, is transplural, or transsystem.