It provides structure and meaning for people who can’t create it for themselves in healthier ways. Not only is it a sorta-kinda fresh start, people they know aren’t supposed to bring up anything that happened when they were “deadname.” I can see how that would be extra appealing for young people who spent too much time online documenting their cringiest moments.
And it provides a blueprint “I need to get two therapy letters for this, take this drug for x amount of years before having this surgery, start voice-training…” It’s never enough obviously, they get to the end of the major list and they start obsessing over the size of their clavicles or canthal tilt or whatever the fuck else. Also comes with a built-in community and belief system and perhaps most importantly, a common enemy.
This is the reason why when Christians warned about removing religion from society we were on a slippery slope to degeneracy, and they're 100% correct.
That being said, I'm not religious by default. Used to be a militant atheist during my early college days, but now am an agnostic type that's sympathetic towards Christianity.
My mother and father were Christians (first gen immigrants) so I grew up tangentially around religious doctrine, and I think that shit is what saved me from turning into a retarded gender ideological leftist. The reason why people are looking for "meaning" in life is because activist movements, academia, and well, insert your favorite villain here (Communists, Jews, etc) have helped to accelerate the breakdown of Western society. Leftists think being more secular automatically makes you smarter, but considering how the highest rate of mental illness are in those who are predominantly leftist, and the farther left you go the more insane they are, goes to show that no, removing religiosity from society did nothing because *nothing was replaced with it, leaving a giant fucking void for something to take its place*, and something eventually came in, and has lowered the collective IQ of all of society.
Enter: LGBTBBQ troon/race/gender retardation. It gives these mentally ill people a new lease in life. Something to "fight" for. The trans rights movement is especially the most dangerous of these movements, because it actively harms the people it affects, and mentally ill easily impressionable young men and women are far more prone to falling for the siren song of salvation through transitioning. It masquerades itself as a human rights movement, but my response to that is, if trans rights is human rights, perhaps trans people should start acting more human, then?
So you can see if you have half a brain from your militant atheist days about how religious cults operate, you can easily see gender identity extremism is just the left wing version of that. Same dogma, same retardation, and just like Christianity did in the 60s-80s, has the backing of major institutions.
That's why a lot of us are ex-leftists/ex-Democrats. We watched as the slippery slope no longer was a fallacy as more and more people fell into this harmful cult.
I look back at the kinda shit I had preached to me and think "Huh, maybe those boomers were right." Anyone who believes we're better off as a society today over the shit we have before never had a chance to see what society looked like before this retardation became mainstream.
