I had never thought of transgenderism as a behavior on the part of people who can't cope with modernity, but it makes a lot of sense through that lens. If Kevin had been born 200 years ago, he'd be a town nut at worst.
If people are going to make poor choices about their bodies, they're only harming themselves.
I am increasingly thinking that it is some sort of “future shock”.
Of course I am not an academic, professional sociologist, or any form of expert on society.
I did sociology at A level. But this hardly qualifies me to make a serious assessment.
The reason I come to this thought though is because society in the west especially has changed unrecognizably in an unprecedented swift time.
More so than ever before too.
In Most of recorded history the day to day lives of most people are largely similar.
Farmers farmed, granted they got better tools and such as time went on, but basically they had mostly the same tools, the same concerns, the same passing of the seasons.
City dwellers would have had the various strata of their society, low skilled/criminal/beggars, religious officials and workers, skill tradesmen and workshops, market traders regular and traveling, soldiers on campaign or keeping the peace then scribes and nobles.
Maybe the specific roles would vary slightly throughout time and different groups would be more or less powerful depending on the general cultural norms, but the point is that for a good 5-6 thousand years a random “normal” person could be plucked from any point in time and put into another.
At first they might find everything strange and different, but they would soon basically recognize what was going on in relation to their own normal.
After 1850 or so, this stops being the case, but then all it takes is another 100 years for the society to fundamentally shift to far from recognizable, and then within 50 years, it’s changed again enormously, and in the past 20 years, we went from dumb phones being a bit of a flash accessory, to nearly everyone requiring near constant internet access.
There is no way a field slave from the height of the Roman Empire would have a fucking clue why and how all the people of this time watch glowing little icons in their hands.
Now, understanding this stuff while growing up with it is one thing, but collectively is it affecting the way people understand the world because their maturity process is so incredibly different to any previous generation?
Has our progress outstripped our social evolution and this current generation is suffering a collective psychological reaction which is hard to recognize because it is unprecedented?
Because they have grown up in a world that was unthinkably impossible for most of human history maybe they just think that the world has to fulfill their wishes.
HRT is magic y'all.
