If a solar flare made social media inaccessible I wonder if there would be a decrease in men transitioning.
Well, you'd always have autogynephiliacs, but without social media you wouldn't have perverts grooming young men into it, and they wouldn't have an outlet for the "i can force you to pretend I'm female" aspect of it. You'd also cut off the "political transgenders," the poor fucks who were browbeat into hating their own sex to the point that they pretend to be "one of the good ones" and toss on a dress. I imagine you'd also cut off all the autistic kids who accidentally fall into (or are pushed into) an obsession about "femininity" instead of picking up Warhammer 40k or Model Trains or Mechanical Pencils or what have you.
So yeah, I'd imagine you'd see a pretty big drop.
Having said the above, and while I'm already posting. Jim Sterling trooned out. hahahahahahahahahahaha (Not late and Sterling, just still fucking laughing hours later.)
I said before Jim Sterling is treating being transgender the same as mid 2000's kids treated being emo. He didn't need to, there isn't actually anything wrong, he just wants in to the Trans Club for that quick boost of endorphins from people calling him "heccin' valid". None of this would have happened without Permanently Online Troons.
At least Emos didn't deny the self-harm/suicidal tendancies.
I've made the comparison before as well, but here's where it gets me.
Imagine if in the 2000 kids into emo / goth / whatever, instead of getting trendy facepaint after seeing The Crow, got face tattoos.
Imagine if there were people out there saying that they had the right to get face tattoos and if you said they were ugly that was a hate crime.
Imagine if they started taking children away from parents who refused to allow their kids to get face tattoos, and putting them in foster homes and grinding ink into their face every night to prepare them for future tattooing.
Imagine if some group of "scientists" who blatantly had a kids-with-face-tattoos fetish said they could diagnose being emo in 2 hours and had groups of tattoo artists they were bringing to schools -- and weren't telling parents about it, becuase your children's facial tattoos aren't your business as a parent, apparently. And you might say no, you disgusting bigot, so...
Imagine being 40, 45 years old in 2021, and you still have to put up with the ugly ass face tattoos what some creepy weirdo pedophile talked you into getting when you were 8 years old. Or you can "de-tattoo," leaving you permanently fucked up -- and doing so would get you disavowed by the emo-tattoo community and half the country who are emo-tattoo enablers and called a fascist nazi bigot who hates poor widdle emo children.
That's what I anticipate seeing troons in 2040 is going to be like. Assuming any of them avoid killing themselves when they realized they were talked into chopping their dicks off and sterilizing themselves by Jewish pedophiles.
