I'm not exactly sure why troons like that game so much considering the take home message is deviancy/corruption=bad. Maybe deep down troons know they suck and want to be punished? I also don't want to make this game all about troons. SH2 was expertly made and the devs drew on their knowledge of alot of concepts from shinto to give us a masterpiece.
Bold of you to assume that's the message they're taking away from the game. As a reasonably old school Silent Hill fan, I can confirm that I've read two straight decades of ridiculous autistic men rant on the internet about how James is the real victim and how everything he did is completely justified (for those who aren't familiar: it's not, and the game makes that very clear) and/or "it's okay because he's sorry about it" (lmfao, nah). It doesn't surprise me that a bunch of those dudes and men like them later reached the critical misogyny accumulation level and trooned out.
why do so many pooners have chronic pain/autoimmune disease? Is it just tied to the whole HRT thing and cross-sex hormones being poison to our bodies when introduced artificially? Like, if I had a penny for every pooner with an invisible disability that maybe does, maybe doesn't exist, I'd be fucking rich.
Well, a lot of them are obviously faking it for attention, or at least exaggerating, but I think a lot of them really do suffer from these conditions. I think part of that is definitely the effects of exogenous testosterone use - maybe it puts your immune system out of whack the same way it does your hormonal balance? - but I think part of it is that transitioning is often something people do in order to feel in control, and women suffering from autoimmune conditions and other invisible disabilities often feel they have very little control over their bodies and their lives.
Think about it: A woman with an invisible disability is treated like absolute
dogshit by society. People assume she's lying and faking it for attention, call her entitled for asking for help, and deny her accommodations and assistance because she doesn't "look disabled". Depending on the severity of her illness, she may not be able to work and thus is totally reliant on the grudging support of others who may or may not be kind about providing it (see: parents, a partner, etc). Statistics show that disabled women are
far more likely to be abused and sexually assaulted than women who are not disabled, often by the very people they depend on to survive.
When you transition, you get to set
all the rules. Everyone has to walk on eggshells to make sure they don't trigger or harm you, and to make sure they cater to your transition and how you want things to be. You're not "entitled" for asking for help anymore, you're encouraged to do it! The internet tranny hugbox will love and applaud you for not having a job because your "gender dysphoria" is too bad, where before you constantly got shit for not being able to work due to your disability. Your GoFundMe for top surgery gets asspats and support where your GoFundMe to get the expensive meds you need to treat your disability got you accusations of faking it to steal people's hard-earned cash. But most importantly, you get to set the terms: You get to decide what people can and can't call you, you get to force them to say and do what you want them to say and do, you get to decide what accommodations are acceptable and what aren't. For someone who feels shamed and robbed of control over their own lives by society as well as the body they were born in, that can be an attractive offer.
Additionally, like I mentioned, they may feel betrayed by the body they were born in, and the trans explanation offers an attractive "shortcut" that offers to "fix" their body and allow them to love it without doing the dirty work of therapy and introspection and accepting and learning to love your body despite feeling like your body is what is hurting you and making your life harder.
Obviously both of those reasons for trooning out are
not happening to well-adjusted, mentally healthy people. Disabled women with a good support system, people who love them, and an environment where they are given autonomy within the limits of what their disability prevents aren't going to go trans, because they don't need to. But the mentally unwell, the abused, the infantilized, the ashamed, the unhelped? They're prime targets for the tranny grooming machine. And it's really unfortunate.
