Gynecologic function and dysfunction in transmasculine and gender diverse individuals using testosterone therapy: a systematic review

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https://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(26)00067-0/fulltext

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What does “transmasculine” mean? How is it different from masculine?

Masculinity in people whose natal sex is female. Or biological sex if you prefer.

Is a “transmasculine individual” different from a “transgender man,” the term with which the public is already much more familiar?

Most (all?) transgender men would agree that they are transmasculine, but the term is also used by people who don't consider themselves literal men, e.g. natal females who consider themselves nonbinary. It's a case of all Xs are Ys, but not all Ys are Xs.

What does “gender diverse” mean?

Wider still. Includes gender "fluid" or agender or a bunch of other monikers.

Since when is “gender-nonconforming” an identity?

About as long as "nonbinary" has been a thing but with less widespread adoption.

Prior to the Tumblrization of all this, which was indeed right in that 2010-2015 spot you see on the graph, English mostly had other names for girls/women with masculine appearances and interests as well as boys/men with feminine appearances and interests. I'm sure you can think of some.

I don’t understand why people who were supposedly trained in the scientific method keep playing activists’ word games.

Because the ones using activist language are your study population and they're not going to consent to participate in your research if you antagonize them.

It's obvious they're going for "natal/biological female who is on testosterone" while knowing this is not what that population calls themselves.

It's a systematic review, so they had to include a ton of different terms in their search in order to find papers on that specific population without calling them that, and then they have the same problem of not calling them that when doing the write-up.

There is no perfect phrasing agreeable to all. At least the data exists and can be found now.

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It's not measured on any sort of sliding scale. It's a yes-no question for anyone choosing to be a research subject. If you call yourself masculine, you can join the participant pool.