On the subject of misconceptions people have about troons:
From what I’ve gathered talking to older, very liberal family members who believe woke culture is a myth spread to make their viewpoint look bad, they seem to think trannies are mostly harmless people finally able to live their truth in the tolerant and progressive modern society, and are worthy of pity because of the shit they’ve received from backwards oppressive family and friends for wanting to express their true identity. I don’t fully blame them as the AGP types do congregate on the internet and the ones denying their existence are of a less tech savvy generation, and though there is a notable amount of troons who start off in a heterosexual marriage with kids and only start the crossdressing and weird degenerate behaviour in middle age, it’s not something they’ve observed themselves and sometimes seeing is believing when it comes to this stuff. And they haven’t stopped to think about what the surgery actually entails - they just hear “turning a wiener into lady parts” and don’t realise stink ditches are a disgustingly crude imitation of the real thing. And that’s if the troon even bothers to get the stink ditch done.
This has been my experience as well. Going to PL a bit but recently my parents have become a lot more progressive; I guess they always were, but they now support many causes I would've never thought. In a recent family dinner the TV was on and there was some Harry Potter ad of some kind, the JK Rowling topic came to discussion and they said that she was being hateful. It surprised me at first, but the more I think about it, it makes sense: you see, I've talked many times here about how predatory HSTS are to men in my area, and for my parents, growing up, the experience was the same. They can't conceive a heterosexual tranny, it's always a guy that's so gay he wants to become a woman, and in that mindset, the bathroom issue seems non-relevant (although if I were a woman I would not be comfortable even sharing a room with them, because HSTS can also feel like they have too many confidence with females and can grope them/mistreat them because that's what “girls do”). Anyways, I did not say a word, but if they knew just what the transgender movement is about I doubt they would be that accepting.
Bullshit.
Gender isn't performative. An overly dolled up troon trying to pass is not going to make the average woman sit there and think, huh- maybe I need to cake on 30 lbs of make-up, dress like a whore, talk like I lack a brain and like this, in order to be seen as more of a female. A born woman is just a woman, she's not performing anything. The average woman does not EVER have a moment in the day where they question if they're a woman, or if they aren't performing their femininity properly, they just are and they are sound in that knowledge.
I'm a bio female who works in a male dominated career. The extent of my makeup is nail polish. I don't even own a dress, skirts (lol), or pair of heels. I'm still a woman and I'm still feminine because I am biologically female and I am more woman / feminine than any troon as a result of that, even though I don't dress like I got in a fight with a showgirls closet, have 10,000's of dollars spent on plastic surgery, or wear enough makeup that I've killed several thousand Indian children from the amount of mica slathered on my face.
The only people performing anything are troons. You can take the troon whose the 'most passing' in a video and photos and when you take away their lighting and their carefully styled surroundings, they are still very obviously men. You put them next to the average woman with no or minimal makeup and it almost always becomes more obvious, even in the most passing of troons people can still tell there's something off about them because humans have evolved to notice these sorts of things- off behavior- as a way to determine possible threats. The reason anyone is uncomfortable around troons isn't because it makes them question their gender. It's because they're watching someone playing pretend constantly and most of the time in a manner that triggers something in our heads, you immediately get an off feeling because your brain processes the person is lying. They're untrustworthy. Which can mean they're dangerous and a threat, so you react accordingly.
Gender / Sex isn't something you feel, it is immutable. If you think you're supposed to be something you literally cannot be you have a mental illness.
Edited for typo.
Gender is performative in the sense that there's expected behaviors from the respective sexes. In a nutshell that's what they mean, although they take it a step further (or two) and think performative ≠ false, useless. They are right in a way, many of us live in cities and there's no denial that the industrial revolutions have changed the world. The behavior expected from each sex is different, from, say, in a more rural way of living, were people still have to fulfill roles expected to their sexes. I've seen a lot of people from the countryside vehemently oppose gender ideology and it makes sense, in their way of living failing to cope with that expected behavior renders you useless. In our society it's not the same, although, ironically, their autism and screeching makes them unable to hold a job or relationships. Workfields are pushed to become more mixed, and so do various degrees that were not originally pursued by many women. If a woman can work in construction, and women have been wearing pants for more than half a century, why can't a guy put on a skirt and live his life?
In many literary works, a woman crossdressing as a man or a man crossdressing as a woman is a common trope. It's not done for fun, but rather, because it allows them to gain access to certain status; in the case of men crossdressing, funnily enough, it allows them to enter the traditionally female-only areas in some of these societies. I know they're works of fiction, but since many men just wear a veil and a dress to “pass”, how come they fool any guardian into thinking they're women? I think it's because of a similar effect. I'm thinking about many cases in 16th-17th centuries theatre, but plenty of the stories of the Arabian Nights feature crossdressing too. In these cases, the guy might crossdress to fool the eunuch that guards the lady. That made me think they probably succeed because they made them believe not that they were actually women, but that they were on the same non-threating scale as an eunuch regarding sexual assault.
Regarding other cases, often you see, since Ancient Greece, that homosexuals are referred to as women, or that they become women when having sex with a man. In a way, gender roles have been so strict that it's easier to reject those males from the male class and group them with the females, at least on this sense. We were drifting away from this kind of thinking the past century, but it seems it came back and stronger than ever. In a way it's fascinating, really, how the seeds of transgenderism were always there in Western civilization, just to fully bloom in the shitstorm that is now in this postmodern era.
