This. Most people are good people who just want to mind their own business and don’t want to go out of their way to harm others. If that means smiling and calling the man in the dress with she/her pronouns to avoid disturbing peace, most people, even the most frothing of conservatives, will do it.
Being in mental health services for as long as I have, one thing you got to learn is the fine line between being empathetic and knowing when to say “enough is enough” and speak up about the person’s actions. The only time I’m not allowed to do so, however, is when it comes to trans people. Many of my clients are, and have been, transgender youth. It’s so draining at this point because you start to realize that the mutilation of their bodies is just a capitalist push marked as progressivism to generate more money for our bloated pharmaceutical industry. It makes me so angry that I have to “validate” these mentally unhealthy people into further destroying themselves so that some Dark Triads up top can rake in easy cash. It’s sick.
Sometimes I do truly wonder if the Socialist Patients Kollective was right when they said capitalism breeds and feeds mental illness.
I somewhat feel this, and while not all people think that trans folk are growing as a demographic;
I'll push back a bit.
I think that the social pathogen
in teens is growing, but what does
being trans actually mean?
If you talked to me a decade ago, Id pretty much insist that it was people getting actual surgeries to be the opposite gender, or at least something like Dr Frankenfurter in Rocky horror, if I was being generous (nothing about them being women, men, etc).
I think that the troons that are insufferable tend to be the perpetually online ones, especially those who are early millineals, are the ones that we actually hate. Of these, I think the population is relatively remaining the same or dropping, because these people are ruining their lives and some are even dying off.
Troonettes, however (teen troons, especially girls who probably would have been lesbians)- they may not be ones who get surgeries, they are the type who may be on hormones for a year or two, etc
But I think its genuinely a phase for them, theyll grow out of it, some will inevitably cause major damage to themselves, and in about a decade theyll be the same as emo was a decade ago.
There seems to be an increase in troonettes, and the only reason why Im annoyed by them is because they tend to vote once theyre of age and the mindvirus skews pretty much everything for them in a way that genuinely harms society.
Otherwise, Im with you on the "I dont really give a fuck how someone wants to live now, try and do least harm, if I could have peace by using pronouns its not worth the hassle that comes from an angry troon at this point because this person is crazy".
