I had a friend that I met on the internet because of some mutual tastes. He is 2 years younger than me and we mostly talked about music, specially metal. He was your typical metalhead and for a while he was kinda clingy because he had a crush on me and it pissed me off and we drifted apart but remained friends.
Short amount of time after that he started identifying as NB and wore makeup, which I interpreted as, idk, becoming goth? He would send me texts saying "I miss you, don't know why we aren't talking as much as before".
Then he starts dating this troon and things go downhill. Girl clothes, painting nails, now only refers himself as she. Hates the metal bands he used to love so much. Says he is more comfortable with himself now but all his pictures are edited to hell and back, specially to make his waist to look more feminine. I am just counting the days until he fully troons out, and it breaks my heart because I miss him too. I miss talking about weird metal bands, sending memes and stuff. But that friend doesn't exist anymore, now he only talks about gender special stuff and how oppressed he feels.
I really want to point out how unhappy he looks now, specially compared to when we started talking. How his photo edits are crappy and he looks fine naturally. But I will be called a transphobe.
I was planning to visit him before all that stuff, now I'm gonna spend that money in something more worthy.