Traumascum

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Traumascum, short for traumatized scum, is a derogatory term seen as a harsher alternative to sysmed. Like sysmed, it originates from a transgender discourse term, that being "truscum," "true transsexual scum." It refers to traumagenic systems who exclude endogenic systems. It was coined by the Trender System in February 2019. Pluscum was suggested as an alternative by critics at the time, having already been coined independently. Traumascum has been deemed by some to be a slur.

The term is out-of-favor in most plural spaces, being criticized alongside sysmed for such things as suggesting that DID and trauma is an identity and co-opting trans issues. The primary reason it is distinct from sysmedicalism as a term is because its focus is trauma, and because it is insulting in name alone, rather than describing a viewpoint. In particular, it is considered by many to further stigmatize trauma and has caused harm to traumatized plurals as a whole.

A reclaimed traumascum pride flag was created by chainlinksystem in 2019 and has been lost to time (so if anyone finds it, please let us know). Still available is Tumblr user traumascum's traumagenic traumascum pride flag, created in March 2019 and attached below.