A thought that has been plaguing me recently is what is going to happen to the kids and teenagers currently part of this shit? With Hippies, there was no internet to constantly track your every move and when you grew up, you could realistically hide your autistic past and have a real job 10~15 years after the fact and become a yuppie. But the young'uns riding this wave are extremely vocal in their support, and they don't think far enough ahead to keep their internet lives private. At best, a lucky few who didn't get surgery will be able to delete their old posts and accounts and lead normal lives, but for the vast majority their involvement in a movement synonymous with mental illness and toxic behavior will be hanging over their heads forever. Those who did transition will have it worse, since they will have their bodies forever destroyed by their bad decisions, and never have kids. It's possible a whole other government program will have to be started up, where taxpayers have to give up their hard earned money to give these fuck-ups help finding places to live and hold steady jobs.
Why did I have to grow up during this shitstorm and not after?
Honestly unless you end up becoming famous or the head of some huge company I don't think you have to much to worry about when it comes to old Internet postings. Especially if you're active on something like Facebook over the years, eventually that shit will get burried, and only some freak stalker will comb through it. No one really cares that much if Brenda down the street posted about how much she hated niggers and kikes back in 2013, at least not enough to go looking for it. Similarly no one is going to care is Kayla was a Zer/Ker pronouns user in 2021 when 2030 rolls around. When you look at examples of normies getting canceled its almost always in real time(or at least as real of time the Internet can be). Remember Super Straight? That kid and his family got cancelled within the month of him posting that, it wasn't some tik tok that got dug up years later.
As for the people who've Permanently marked their bodies via hormones or surgery, well..... They're basically just walking r/Dogecoin posts about fomoing your life savings away, except you can recover from a meme tier financial collapse(theoretically). With trans medical procedures and hormones however there's very little chance if any at all to return to the mean state. They're marked for life for better or for worse. There's no telling what the future has in store for us, and people have this odd misconception that society will just continually keep liberalizing endlessly, trannies better hope that thing's don't start to slide back in the other direction because they will be the first to feel it.
Those are old comments that ticks me a lot, sorry to necro them - I wanted to reply a while back but I've been busy irl.
I know I'm almost too obsessed with this whole 'what would happen to troons in the future' deal that it might tires out others here. But it's probably the thing I'm worried the most about trans activism. I have had a few people in my life and I couldn't really stop them, all I could do is slowly distancing myself while they're becoming more and more insufferable to be around after they troon out... And even if I stopped from talking to my troon ex-friends, I still care about where would they be in the future? How would they cope if this thing falls apart?
Unlike any post-war counterculture, this troonacy thing is endorsed by the establishment and private sector. It can't be as easily ignored as a silly blunder teenage phases you go through... because being a troon requires institutions affirmation from medical procedures and recordkeeping built on tending tranny delusions, and legal procedures allowing you to change gender in your identifications. It's not something that can go away as if nothing happened because the one in charge has to get around rectifying it. The responsible would falls on doctors, lawyers, bureaucrats, organisations and everyone who's involved in this mess.
One possible scenario IF it happens to end. IMO, detrooners will get their 15 minute of fame at one point, to ask for pity, while pharma companies and surgeons will milk out the last drop of cash out of the ones who still want to chase the dragon, trying to hopelessly 'fix' their bodies. (That won't really fix anything anyway.) Then they'll fade out of public consciousness and become an embarrassing chapter in history.
But how would they be seen and treated by regular person? Would people who still remember the days of tyranny where you could get cancelled and even put in prison for questioning gender ideology now that many decided to launder themselves into another kind of 'sad victims' again? How would ex-troons even accept themselves knowing that they would live with the marks of transitioning because of a dumb decision they made as teenagers for the rest of their life. Especially at the time where you won't pass anymore as trans awareness activism made everyone
I'm not sure what would even be compared to troonism when it comes to having permanent and 'voluntary' body modifications that cause more harm than good in historical sense. I could think of foot-binding in China - but that was forced down. Perhaps you could compare it to religions that the priests castrated themselves like the followers of Cybele in Roman time. But instead of seeing it as a commitment to the Divine, our new god is our ego and a strive for discovering your 'true self'. A modern gnosticism. Maybe our future textbook might see it as an enforcement of gender norms in 20th-21st century that's justified with pseudoscience and the hubris of medical practitioners at the time just as we read about wacky Victorian era 'science'.
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