Off-Topic When did you hit peak trans and why? - Finally realized that trans activism and gender ideology are harmful.

[Polexia Aphrodisia]

Not many kids this time but my cousin had brought his 13 year old daughter and 7 year old son. You have to understand the daughter is a really special young lady. Even at her young age, she’s jaw droppingly beautiful. Women would kill for her bone structure and looks. She’s also smart, self assured and very into sports; a real Tom boy. The dream daughter and my cousin jokes about hiring ex secret service agents to make sure no one bothers her. That’s already starting and we’re all happy she’s been taking karate for 7 years.

This is a really fucking weird way to talk about a child and the entire story could have been easily communicated without it.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

This is a really fucking weird way to talk about a child and the entire story could have been easily communicated without it.

Glad I wasn't the only one to notice.

 

[Oligarca Caballero]

Meeting an actual troon in real life for the first time right before the pandemic. I already had poor opinions of the gender crazies before but I kind of tolerated troons because I bought the whole not born in your body thing, also because they were a rare sight. Then I had an encounter in an airport with this gross 40 something guy clearly balding with high heels and a shit ton of poorly applied makeup, taking pictures of himself (or his plastic tits probably) while doing the classic AGP smirk, he ended up asking me to take a picture for "her", for work or something, while doing a ridiculous pose.

I distinctly remember he smelt like pure unfettered ass (kind of like makeup and sweat, it was a really foul smell and you could tell he hadn't showered because of his greasy hair). I pity anyone who had to sit next to him in the airplane. The sight was enough to gross me out and left a really bad impression of these people on me, so when I found out during the pandemic that most of them were actually gross space invading pedophiles I wasn't really surprised.

 

[MZKZ]

Here is my first hand experience with being involved in transgender circles.

I peaked after having an antisocial streak and stopped conforming to trans friendly echo chamber logic- began thinking for myself instead of only thinking things that served to enable the people in my vicinity. The trans community is kind of like a cult in that way- ANY semblance of sanity or questioning is stomped out as being unsupportive & harmful. If most people I knew found out I think this way I would be ostracized IMMEDIATELY. They are relentless. & it's like this in 99% of spaces where faggots hang out so it's impossible to avoid if you're already kind of a faggot.

Almost nobody talks about the horror stories or drawbacks of medical transition. The amount of trans people i've encountered with absolutely no knowledge on what these chemicals were doing to their bodies and just 'trusting the professionals' was scary. It's scary that the only thing that prevented me from going full blown troon was my own self awareness. I saw someone else mention too- how easy it is to get HRT. When questioning my doctor about it she told me all I needed was a blood test. That's it. And it's covered under my healthcare too, so it'd be free. Horrifying. I know people who have had their lives ruined after getting bottom surgery on suicide watch. I know a guy who's gotten organ damage in their kidneys and HEART from taking testosterone and blocking all of the estrogen in their body. It's not pretty.

It really feels like it's constructed to make you hate yourself, there is no talk of accepting your body in trans communities (obviously besides the zipper tits shit) and people who are gender special yet on the fence about medical transition are bullied by the frankensteins for not being tranny enough. It begins to look like a huge sentient beast that feeds off self loathing. It actively encourages you to deny your natural anatomy and strive to be "the most perfect you"(lol) instead of accepting the perfectly healthy body you were born with. I don't need to bring up how this makes the tranny movement so dangerous to people who are already extremely mentally ill & vulnerable. It's like an axewound vortex which sucks in everyone who is too weak to resist it's force, never to be sane again. If they weren't already susceptible to suicide in the first place trooning out will certainly seal that fate.

Another big hit was because of a tumblr post I saw recently involving a fetish one of these people had where they would secretly put estrogen in someones food and forcefully feminize them. There's definitely a scale of trans degeneracy happening and I sincerely think there are 'tolerable trannies'(?) out there, but this particular type of freak is beyond repair and definitely adjacent if not equal to a sexual predator. I believe if you're going to be a tranny you should at least make it spiritual or something instead of a fucking fetish you subject others to. I don't understand how people like that can hold any semblance of self esteem existing like that, feels like nothing is sacred.

Really i've just lost my patience with the entire thing. I got sick of feeling like a bad person because I felt genuine worry and pity for how much everyone hated themselves around me and how miserable transitioning was making them underneath all the superficial euphoria.

As I said before, mentally ill people are extremely vulnerable to these types of mindsets (Just like how we are also vulnerable to cult indoctrination) and retards are already gender confused on default, the normalization of self mutilation is WRONG and puts a lot of people who are already vulnerable to suicide even further over the edge. I don't really care about people who are just gender special just like I don't care about otherkins or whatever autistic shenanigans they want to get up to, I just cannot STAND the mutilation. Stop fucking mutilating yourselves for the love of god and stop taking up unnecessary space in the healthcare system while there are people DYING. We have free healthcare so this shit doesn't profit anybody, it's just a waste of space and resources. The end.

 

[my penis is on fire]

The thing that swayed me to TTD was troons causing all of the women to leave my local D&D scene. It's always been male dominated ofc but there used to be a healthy number of art hoes around. Since trooning out gives the worst sex pest spergs a license to be extra rapey, as more and more of them appeared the real women got "unexplainably" less enthusiastic about the game and eventually just stopped showing up altogether. Trannies causing the total extinction of women in male hobbies isn't talked about enough

 

[Fapcop]

Damn, reading this thread really makes me appreciate living in a country where this shit is still waaaaay on the fringes.

I’m an unabashed transphobe at work. As is my female boss.

Tranny sightings are very rare, and I’ve yet to discuss the topic with other people without them smirking about the concept of a man wearing a wig and calling himself a woman.

Stay strong Kiwi frens.

 

[Mourning_Cloak]

I've never been a fan of the "people of gender" but something that really cemented peaking for me is the following:

Initially I was told that for trans people, anything relating to their biological sex makes them want to kill themselves because their brain is "supposed" to be the opposite sex. So for example, a FTM will have a heart attack at the mere thought of pregnancy or when they get their period. I was told all they wanted to do was be the opposite sex.

Therefore, one would assume that the word "transgender" or being referred to as "transgender" would also cause mental anguish because it would remind them that no matter what they do, they were born as the sex they don't want to be. I also remember being told or reading this was the case. However, all any "trans" person does is brag about how they're TRANS and so TRANS and the TRANS EXPERIENCE. They literally wear it on their clothes like an cashier nametag and making their TRANSNESS their entire personality. Sure, there's exceptions to this (trans that just want to hide in the background) but they are the overwhelming minority.

If calling a MTF "dude" or "bruh" (which are basically unisex terms now) is enough for them to want to kill themselves, why isn't reminding them they're "trans" and not "cis" enough for the same?

 

[Mukhrani]

This is a really fucking weird way to talk about a child and the entire story could have been easily communicated without it.

If it was a dude, yeah, but I think the poster is an older woman and for whatever reason a LOT of them do this. It's as if once a woman reaches a certain age and has seen a certain number of kids grow up trying to predict how they turn out becomes like a parlor game. I've seen old ladies tell moms that their 6 year old boy is going to be a lady killer.

 

[Barbenheimer]

I’ve lurked the farms for quite awhile before making an account and I had always heard how transphobic the site was and personally found it purposefully inflammatory back then that the place to discuss them was called “stinkditch”. I was a live and let live kind of person who never researched deeply trans people or their ideology- basically I chose to be a willful ignorant faggot. But you always care when it begins to effect you directly and I was no different

There was this man I worked with at a previous job who was openly trans, one of those types where it’s their entire personality, and I got along with them fine until one day he brought up how there’s so much transphobia due to misunderstandings and if people just educated themselves the trans community would be more accepted. Well I always had some questions so I took the opportunity to see if I can ask this very vibrant trans”woman” a question to which they giddily accepted. It was a simple one:

If gender is a social construct why do so many trans people want to, say, get SRS or get tits to be a “woman” or put on a dress if a ‘woman’ is simply an identity you identify as? I asked why the transGENDER movement was seemingly built around changing one’s SEX when that same community has said for years gender and sex are two different concepts (this was before they heavily started saying sex is a spectrum or they’re literally female).

Well after a bit of silence HE finally said something along the lines of “I know you mean good intentions so I’m not going to get upset but what you said is very transphobic”. And that was it, that was my “answer”. I was a bit shellshocked after they walked away having just been called transphobic for asking a question they said was okay to ask and encouraged to clear up “misunderstandings”. Well after that left a bad taste in my mouth a week or so passed before I got called into my bosses office with HR present to talk to me about an incident- the troon decided to go to their favorite method off attack: get someone fired for an “offense”. I’m good at my position regardless of what company I work at so I had good rapport and they just gave me a talking to, but the fact they sided with HIM so fast over me didn’t make me want to stay there, so I quit shortly after.

The whole thing gnawed at me because I was genuinely asking a question and did so respectfully yet was made out to be the bad guy, and after this event it encouraged me to investigate and sure enough my story is a common occurrence when dealing with the trans cult. And that’s what it is and why I received the answer I did, I’ve learned that shouting transphobia is all they can do in response to genuine questions because those questions invalidate their beliefs. It’s a religion that requires complete faith because like any false religion it can’t push back the truth with the lies it preaches. Then I did further deep dives on places like here and saw the constant grooming, debauchery, and delusion that entire community partakes in

So essentially I went from a bygones be bygones so long as you don’t effect other people, who never looked into the trans movement to seek how much they were and are effecting people, to someone who’s a firm believer that if anyone does the research they’ll be against the troon community and what they stand for- willful Ignorance is their greatest ally

 

[Fapcop]

What originally peaked me was the fact that they all seem to be “lesbian”.

Well, if you’re a woman who happened to be born in the wrong body, then you’d think you’d have the same distribution of homosexuality as in women in general, right? So where do all these trans Ian’s come from?

So essentially I went from a bygones be bygones so long as you don’t effect other people, who never looked into the trans movement to seek how much they were and are effecting people, to someone who’s a firm believer that if anyone does the research they’ll be against the troon community and what they stand for- willful Ignorance is their greatest ally

That’s the thing. They’re almost all gross, disturbed people.

I’ve met quite a few troons over the years, and I’ve met ONE tranny who lived up to the stereotype of “just let me live my life!”

(Frankly I don’t know if he IS a tranny, a cheerful, big ol’ middle aged hun, he’s never brought it up. Still, I stick to the safe space of not maaming or siring him. If he doesn’t tard out and insist I ma’am him, I’m going to show a modicum of respect and not consciously remind him he’s a man.)

Still don’t want him in women’s bathrooms though. And we all know how rare these unicorn-trannies are.

 

[Polexia Aphrodisia]

If gender is a social construct why do so many trans people want to, say, get SRS or get tits to be a “woman” or put on a dress if a ‘woman’ is simply an identity you identify as? I asked why the transGENDER movement was seemingly built around changing one’s SEX when that same community has said for years gender and sex are two different concepts (this was before they heavily started saying sex is a spectrum or they’re literally female).

Troons hate the whole "transracial" thing, but it really is exactly the same thing.

You can't "feel" male or female any more than you can "feel" black or Asian or Latin or indigenous or whatever. It's what you are and what you have been since birth. Any "feeling like" is based on stereotypes and, often, offensive ones. You can love ramen noodles and dressing in brocade outfits and annymays, but that doesn't make you Asian if you're born another race. You can love wearing your hair long and "skirt go spinny" and knee-high socks, but that doesn't make you a woman. You can strap your tits down and wear Carhartt and cut your hair off and put on a dildo, but that doesn't make you a man.

If you're not part of a culture that's a minority or that's marginalized, you will never know the experience of belonging to that culture, no matter how well you try to imitate the people who do.

There is no difference between transgender and transracial.

 

[Internet Wizard]

Peaking at trans is at the stage where it may destroy friendships for me

Spoiler: spoiler

Last year a tranny at my college offed himself after allegedly raping a girl. A heinous act that deserves no sympathy, for sure, but many of my friends were quick to slander the girl's viewpoint (having dealt with mental illness) and accuse her of making up the accusation to garner sympathy. I'm not involved with it, other than one friend having known the dead tranny as a kid pre trans and being surprised, but that's it.
I took their side at first, because they were on campus when it happened and probably knew more. Now I don't know, they insist on their view months after the fact and continue to stand by it. I doubt they are right, from the bottom of my heart
But my friends are still knee deep in tranny nonsense, many knowing troons themselves. These are people I've confided with and until that incident have generally been kind to me, especially in my own times of crisis. Now they're threatening to cut me off, since this incident has kind of shown that I really do not respect trannies and rapists no less.
I'm on a liberal college campus so of course I can't just ignore trannies. They will be in my classes, they will be around me. They are inevitable, I'm not friends with them but they still exist. I don't want to out myself as a heckin bigot but I can't keep playing along with delusion, for the sake of my own sanity. I'm tired of saying one thing and meaning another. Fuck trannies.
I'm not an advocate for TTD, I still feel like most of them are worthy of repentance and living fulfilling lives especially if they have the privilege of getting a college education. What's more is that with how selfish suicide is as an act, it would only serve to hurt their families more than themselves because they will forever live knowing that their child died for reasons they may interpret as bad parenting -- with the kid who died last year I know locals who say that their parents feel this way, and deeply internalize the pain of their kids suicide as being their fault. They shouldn't feel that way, their son fucked up on his own and paid the price for it.
Trans is a harmful ideology, I know this and stand by it. What this incident shows more than anything is that its the tool of groomers and rapists to manipulate others into sympathy, certainly an idea anyone in the LBG community can relate with. But as talking with many detransers on this site and other places has shown I still hurt and feel that they (if they haven't raped and manipulated others ofc) can still be saved, and this feeling doesn't subside despite these incidents.
I just don't know

 

[Not A Bunny]

Peaking at trans is at the stage where it may destroy friendships for me

It used to be "believe all women".

Hmm.

 

[Len Kagamine]

My story is pretty typical and probably nothing new. Long post of spergy rambling ahead.

Spoiler

Like most people, I did not give a rats ass if a guy wanted to wear a dress in his spare time. I knew gender dysphoria was a real thing but extremely rare, and I didn't know much about it so I assumed letting them roleplay was a form of treatment like everyone said it was. I first became aware of this 10 years ago and there was definitely a trend starting; I brushed those off as people just "faking" having gender dysphoria for attention.

My problem was when they started being demanding and entitled, policing speech, and trying to act like they're no different from the opposite sex to a ridiculous degree. They would attack people at the drop of a hat at even the slightest criticism. I would even see people who religiously worshipped the troon brigade get outcasted just for saying something in the wrong way even if it was intentioned well. Puppychan comes to mind, I used to follow her here when I was a lurker for many years. She was constantly posting about how much she loved tranny dick and you'd think they'd love it after the endless bitching about women not wanting to fuck them, but they called her out for "fetishizing" troons too much. It's like they just want to feel persecuted and will find a reason to complain anywhere.

Call me MATI but "crybullies"/people who play victim for their own gain are the worst types of people imo. Especially when there is real suffering in the world. For all the talking about privilege they are often very privileged; plenty of people out there wish that getting called a faggot online was the worst of their problems.

A few years ago I started actually researching the trans ideology after it started growing outside of just the progressive side of the internet, especially into real life. I always knew the ideology was shaky but then I saw how completely cult-like it had become. It felt so obvious to anyone with a brain that the sex change surgeries were not nearly advanced enough to be ethical, but if you say that or are a troon showing regret about the new 'pocket or 'dog, you'll be endlessly shamed. Same for other common sense issues, like the sports debate and "maybe kids should wait until 18 before they make irreparable changes to their body". Nope, you might as well have said you want TTD, evil nazi.

I also realized that a lot of their talking points just fall flat. They say that they're at a higher risk of violence and pull the "I feel unsafe" card, but most of the time trans identified individuals who are murdered were already involved in prostitution and other risky situations that increase their likelihood of violence regardless. Especially when they say that towards women; I literally don't think there's a case where a woman has harmed a male troon in any way. Feel free to prove me wrong but I looked. Meanwhile it takes 5 seconds to see an example of the opposite happening. Same thing with the suicide statistic; "life saving gender affirming care" does not lower the chance whatsoever. So obviously it's not the right treatment for the issue of gender dysphoria even if we generously assume that most people who call themselves trans even suffer from it. But no one tries to find a new treatment cause that would be trans genocide obviously.

Seeing all these stories of disaffected liberals just means they're downright awful at advocating for themselves. They should have just been happy that we got to the point where men wouldn't be beaten up and arrested for wearing a dress and left it there. But they just really needed that special treatment and now they're causing their own downfall. Their optics are literally so bad it feels like a psyop to make people hate them more, if it hadn't gone on so long. Yet somehow they still have all this power that's only now finally starting to fall apart. Even though if you look at polls the majority of Americans agree that it's stupid, if you went online you'd think everyone was fully on board with it. People are scared of being socially ostracized just for calling someone the wrong pronoun. In a smarter world, we wouldn't be letting these retards control us, mainstream society would have laughed in their faces when they tried and sent them scurrying back to tumblr or whatever. It's such a strange phenomenon and honestly was part of what made me realize how susceptible humans are even in the modern age to falling into mass hysteria.

 

[Anasa Tristis]

I peaked at the time of the first "bathroom bill" kerfuffle.

Me too. In an all at once kind of way.

Back then (2016 ish?) I vaguely knew trannies were becoming more visible and mainstream, but TBH I didn't know how bad it had already gotten. Being a semi isolated old fart I wasn't encountering them irl* or online. I was already disillusioned with Saint Obama by then so I completely missed his talking about them too. I didn't know anything about the particulars of gender identity ideology, nothing about HSTS vs AGPs, or autists and anime, or the whole "born in the wrong body" and "I knew when I was a kid" BS. Or how troons were the trendy new bleeding heart concern over damn near everybody else, or the about the Gold Rush quietly occurring in the "gender affirming healthcare" world.

It used to be "believe all women".

Hmm.

Yes it did. I totally missed when that changed too. Seemingly out of the blue "feminism" was no longer for improving female lives but had pivoted to fighting against the patriarchy for "the marginalized" instead. (WTH? And what's with all this "identity" nonsense?)

So anyway. On with the peak! There was a Time or Newsweek piece on the NC bathroom bill and (unlike recent times, LOL) the writer included a quote from a dissenting woman. I don't even remember what she said now. Some standard and rational objection about privacy or safety. Being an old school feminist, my immediate thoughts were: "If a single woman objects to this, I back the woman. I don't even need to know her reasons. That she's a woman and she objects is enough for me to support her on this." And that was it for me. Not TTD, but just a firm and simple No.

I suppose what peaked me even more was the reactions I got from my libfem social circle on FaceBot when I explained my lack of support for troons using women's bathrooms after reading that quote. Hoo boy. I shocked them and they shocked me. A few even unfriended me, and I was like "Really? We disagree once on something really stupid and obvious and you, a grown woman who considers herself a feminist, unfriended me over it? Like a 13 year old? Wow. WTF is going on here?!"

Once I learned the term "gender critical" it was off to the races for me. I bopped around online, learned what was going on, and I eventually wound up here at the Farms where "free speech" isn't conditional.

*There was an early adapter pooner on the edge of my social circle in the late 1990s/early 2000s which was a "whatever" thing for me. I didn't know her personally and rarely interacted with her. A soft butch lesbian. Seemed like a nice gal. One day a mutual friend said "Oh, X transitioned and is going by Y now." "Uh. Ok." I chuckle recalling that moment now. I was totally ignorant of what that really meant and she chose a predictable, utterly pooneresque new name for herself. Not Aiden, but damn close! I still see her around now and then and she hasn't detransitioned, so I guess it worked out for her. Due to her age she passes pretty well. She just looks like an odd, slightly pudgy older dude, in her khakis and polo shirts. The mutual friend, however, drifted away. I sometimes wonder if they saw some of my "transphobic" comments before I left FaceBot.

 

[Not A Bunny]

Seemingly out of the blue "feminism" was no longer for improving female lives but had pivoted to fighting against the patriarchy for "the marginalized" instead. (WTH? And what's with all this "identity" nonsense?)

It wasn't out of the blue. It was with the addition of "intersectionality". They believe that the more "marginalized" identities they ally with, the more empathetic they are.

 

[Aunt Carol]

What originally peaked me was the fact that they all seem to be “lesbian”.

Well, if you’re a woman who happened to be born in the wrong body, then you’d think you’d have the same distribution of homosexuality as in women in general, right? So where do all these trans Ian’s come from?

It's the same as all the furries doing ERP while imagining each other to be hot animal ladies/herms, while just being a bunch of chubby dudes.

Transbians are just furries with a human female fursona.

 

[Doktor Grimm]

I'm on a liberal college campus so of course I can't just ignore trannies. They will be in my classes, they will be around me. They are inevitable, I'm not friends with them but they still exist. I don't want to out myself as a heckin bigot but I can't keep playing along with delusion, for the sake of my own sanity. I'm tired of saying one thing and meaning another.

Yeah that is exactly the college experience. It's so demoralising to find yourself caught up in the culture war against your will -- you have to get to know most people understanding that eventually, you'll be forced to pick one of two options, and both of them suck. The very worst thing is that this is supposed to be our clique. We're drawn to one another. The price you pay for being young, introverted, & artsy-looking is getting singled out on campus by people looking for signatures on their trans rights petitions & ending up on their shit list when you politely decline.

To speak for myself: I don't dislike most of the progressive idpol faction outside of the things they enable. On rare occasions, I even have pleasant interactions with actual (relatively stable) trannies about things we're interested in. But what does it matter? How do I navigate the stage of human connection in which we share vulnerable personal information? What am I supposed to say beyond "Um yeah I went to x school in x suburb and have no strong opinions about anything one way or the other"? It's taking all of my energy to maintain this flimsy facade of being a person I am not. (note the recurring theme!)

I'M DONE. So done. One more incident and I'm going to start showing up to class with TERF stickers on my laptop.

 

[toilet_rainbow]

The whole thing gnawed at me because I was genuinely asking a question and did so respectfully yet was made out to be the bad guy, and after this event it encouraged me to investigate and sure enough my story is a common occurrence when dealing with the trans cult. And that’s what it is and why I received the answer I did, I’ve learned that shouting transphobia is all they can do in response to genuine questions because those questions invalidate their beliefs. It’s a religion that requires complete faith because like any false religion it can’t push back the truth with the lies it preaches. Then I did further deep dives on places like here and saw the constant grooming, debauchery, and delusion that entire community partakes in

For all their talk of “listen to trans people,” I learned very quickly like you did that they actually hate being asked questions about transgenderism, because it either pokes holes in the narrative or they temporarily lose control (and attempt to regain it by screaming “transphobe”). Once had an enby Tumblr mutual do one of those “ask me anything about being non binary” askbox prompts. I was and am interested in women’s health and knew that she was biologically female, as even then I realized quickly that most enbies were such. I asked her that since she was AFAB and had female parts, would she go see a gynecologist for reproductive health issues, or someone else? Because the concept of “nonbinary healthcare” like she was reblogging about prior confused me. She refused to answer (yet posted publicly) that I was being transphobic and that she didn’t have female parts, she just had body parts. This was long before I had heard of troons gleefully using “girldick” to refer to their dicks, but I knew that she was full of shit because there is no such thing as a male or non binary vagina, uterus, cervix, etc.

(Similarly, funny that you mention the name of Stinkditch initially intimidating you, because the name is from what one of the co-founders of Trans Lifeline called his neovagina when he wasn’t referring to it as a taco. The TLL founders also attempted to home invade Null’s house in the day for their very receipt heavy thread, so the subforum name is simultaneously a big fuck you to not just tyrannies trannies thanks autocorrect as a whole but to them specifically.)

It wasn't out of the blue. It was with the addition of "intersectionality". They believe that the more "marginalized" identities they ally with, the more empathetic they are.

Having read Kimberle Crenshaw’s original papers on it ages ago, I think she had good intentions (even if the theory itself is flawed and as easy to tear apart as transgenderism). But like therapy speak, SJWs that barely understood it to begin with twisted it into the oppression Olympics that trannies then took and won Gold Medal for. It’s used not just for performative allyship but for abuse tactics by troons especially. Applying intersectionality theory in the real world was a mistake.

 

[Not A Bunny]

Having read Kimberle Crenshaw’s original papers on it ages ago, I think she had good intentions (even if the theory itself is flawed and as easy to tear apart as transgenderism). But like therapy speak, SJWs that barely understood it to begin with twisted it into the oppression Olympics that trannies then took and won Gold Medal for. It’s used not just for performative allyship but for abuse tactics by troons especially. Applying intersectionality theory in the real world was a mistake.

I wouldn't even have a problem with intersectionality, but for the fact that it turned into yet another one of those things that is morality by policy, which is just the logical extension to adults of telling a kid to apologize for something they don't particularly feel sorry for. You're not going to change their mind, you're just going to make them hate you for making them do something they didn't want to.

If you apply the intersectional lens to small segments of society, you may even find that the balance of power shifts situationally, so maybe it's not a good idea to explode it onto a general population of millions of people.

It's why everyone hates transgenderism and DEI now. Because you can preach the Gospel of Love and Tolerance all you want, but the second you pull out a whip on people that don't follow along, you get a whole lot of surprised pikachu faces about how their glorious plans eventually failed.

For all their talk of “listen to trans people,”

I don't have to listen to anyone to know when they're full of shit. It's why I don't bother listening to Scientologists, either.

The price you pay for being young, introverted, & artsy-looking is getting singled out on campus by people looking for signatures on their trans rights petitions & ending up on their shit list when you politely decline.

I worked 30 hours a week while earning 16-17 credits a semester in college. I avoided a lot of socialization and parties, yes, but I also avoided a lot of /imincollegeandthisisdeep shit as well. Now remember, this is the 90s, and back then, I really WAS under the impression that I was supposed to have been born a man.

I avoided a LOT of shit simply by being too busy to gaze at my navel. Seems it worked out well for me.