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Apart from common beliefs relating to the trans identity as a whole in its relation to the medical world, other common topics for debate and discourse within the transmedicalist community are things like non-binary identities, xenogenders, and neopronouns.

Many transmedicalists support non-binary identities in a variety of ways, through concepts like the intersex brain theory, and many transmedicalists are themselves non-binary. However, while support for non-binary identities is widespread throughout the transmedicalist community, some more radical transmedicalists have harmful beliefs that non-binary people are not real or that they're a "mockery" to binary transgender individuals. Those "radmeds" may believe that being non-binary is medically impossible and that the different ways in which they would experience dysphoria could potentially delegitimize the struggles of binary transgender individuals. However, that exclusionist belief is not a defining feature of the transmedicalist community and is instead a more radical belief among radmeds.

Another common topic for debate and varying opinions among transmedicalists is xenogender identities. Some transmedicalists fully support xenogenders, some are ambivalent towards them, and some do not support them. Transmedicalists who support xenogenders believe that different gender experiences are valid, and transmedicalists who don't support xenogenders may posit that gender is not just a construct or an arbitrary feeling, but a concrete reality which therefore can't be related to things like animals or concepts. Many transmedicalists may support aspects of both of the aforementioned arguments about xenogenders, but some might not have any opinions one way or the other regarding xenogenders.

One thing many transmedicalists commonly discuss is neopronouns. One relatively common belief about them is that they are ableist due to the difficulty some neurodivergent people may have in understanding them, how to spell them, and how and why to use them. Many neurodivergent people may have troubles with comprehension of neopronouns, and it's therefore a common belief that they're not neurodivergent-friendly and therefore promote ableism. Other beliefs surrounding neopronouns in the transmedicalist community include (but are not limited to) that they are valid because they may be validating to peoples' gender identities and there's nothing wrong with that, and that that they're a mockery to trans people because they accompany a rise in non-binary visibility and some radmeds believe non-binary people are mockeries to the trans community.