Maybe it’s because I’m normie-adjacent, but I truly cannot imagine where you all are going offline for this trans shit to be a constant conversation topic enough for anyone to even be aware of the existence of troons beyond “oh they’re boys who want to be girls”/“girls who want to be boys”. Literally everything I know about troons, I learned about it from social media because there’s where trannies seem to congregate. Most people are unaware of, or uninterested in, this tranny shit. I’ve only met 2 MtF trannies in my whole life, and both times were in INSANELY liberal spaces. Every FtM tranny I know is a young woman in her early 20s who just looks like a little girl who grew a nasty pedo-stache.
How is this a topic that everyone seems to be so fascinated by and yet uninterested in at the same time?
I can only give you my point of view on this. Let's see how well I can do this without PLing too hard.
The company I work for has a pretty robust IT department that I have to interact with almost daily. It's an engineering firm with a solidly "I don't know about no transgender peoples" conservative upper management, but predictably "progressive" HR.
In the past five years the IT department has had at least three MTF (that I know of) assigned to it. One is a low-key, very introverted person in their 30s who keeps to themselves and is fairly well-liked by most (me included, they bring good food at company gatherings). The other two are full dangerhair, autistic, barely-competent, pronoun-stating, trans-flag-pin-wearing, screaming-about-transphobic-coffee-cups
troons. One of them has left (or was let go) already, but the other is dug in like a tick because the previous one raised such a stink when he left that management is happy to just leave the remaining one where he is.
I knew of the concept but I wasn't really aware of transgender people beforehand, but I got plenty of negative experiences having to deal with those two troons in real life. Since then I've met a few more transgender people online (as well as one more IRL). It's basically impossible not to stumble across them if you play online games at all these days. I used to play ARMA 3 a lot, and for some ungodly reason you'll find
a ton of troons in a lot of popular units. My guess is that they're attracted to the autism. Thankfully most were chill if you went full "don't ask, don't tell" with them, and some even joked about being so bad at being guys they turned out to be girls. Enough of them were screeching troons that they made me realize there were bound to be more of them out there.
Then I found the farms... and the rest is history.
