I'm not sure and I can't speak for the straight girls doing this, but I guess it's related to the recent (past 5-10 years) normalisation of what essentially is porn stereotypes as "femininity". Liberal feminism has sold girls the lie that selling your body as a product for men's entertainment is empowering. Risking your health and safety by sleeping with many men casually is empowering. Every individual choice is EmPoWeRiNg, everything you do is politicised. If you don't want to get choked during sex you're a prude. Yaaas kween! Boss bitch! Etc.
I have never seen so many girls as young as 12 and 13 wearing drag queen style makeup as a daily look, and too afraid to leave the house without it. I've never seen so many girls think it's a great idea to sell their bodies to crusty coomers upon reaching 18. I've never seen such retarded, porn inspired beauty standards amongst 12-20 year olds. A lot of this is driven by consumerism and mainstreaming of porn. I am not slutshaming, it's not a matter of morality but wellbeing, and these are children/teens we're talking about.
It is only my opinion, but I think the lack of belonging and confusion many girls might feel during their teen years is encouraging this increase in FTM troons. If you can't fit in with or go with these social pressures, or become convinced you're special and different for not being girly (very common), not to mention the overlap with things like autism, depression and eating disorders, it's easy to get groomed into this stuff.
Completely agreed. I started detrooning a few months ago and have been reflecting a lot on what lead to me to troon out to begin with. I realized a lot of it just had to do with what modern feminism presented to my gender-nonconforming teen self as the acceptable ways of being a female, which was made much worse by going to a high school in a university town that was a hotbed of extremely priveliged, extremely liberal shithead kids of university professors who thought you were a prude and simply suffering from "internalized misogyny" if you weren't doing anal by age 14 and walking around in nothing but booty shorts and a pushup bra with a goddamn circus tent's worth of clown makeup caked on your face.
Girls, especially gender-nonconforming, awkward and lonely ones, in such environments these days often have three options for finding a social group in which to make friends:
1) Give in and act and dress like a braindead caricature of a bimbo and then belittle other girls for not changing everything about themselves for the sake of vampirically feeding off as much male / social media attention as possible like your life depends on it. Don't forget to somehow justify all this in the name of feminism without actually caring about feminism beyond being able to wield it for delicious oppression points.
2) Actually become invested in feminism but be an absolute obnoxious, elitist cunt about it. Instead of showing of your tits, show off how INTELLECKSCHUAL you are. Dismiss any girl who doesn't equate saying "you guys" to female genocide as a self-hating victim of patriarchy who is clearly beneath you. Also all women are victims and that's never going to change. Accept your role as a forever victim, you victim.
3) Join the less popular but at least on the surface much more friendly, nonjudgemental and accepting queer kids, many of whom will have already started to troon out or soon will be. Start believing the reason you weren't popular and didn't have many friends before was because you weren't being your troo self. Reject being female entirely and join the ROGD gang. Ignore as best as you can the batshit drama that happens in your newfound troon gang because at least they aren't brutally elitist.
I believe experiences like this are also why so many trans people have fallen head-over-heals for communism. They feel rejected by a social hierarchy where they didn't make the cut for their own birth sex.
It's so ironic to me how much third-wave feminism has just lead to so many young girls hating themselves and rejecting womanhood instead of learning to be comfortable as the women they are. Feminism didn't empower me, it taught me that being raped and abused or degraded and reduced to your perceived utility as a walking sex doll is an inescapable and all-encompassing part of the female experience, and if you think for a second that it's not or that you can empower yourself to get away from those things, you're still somehow a victim. Are radfems really that surprised that young girls are fleeing from femaleness when they've spent over a decade telling Western women that being a woman is the worst fate imaginable, even when things start to get better?
Edit: Sorry, didn't realize how much I was sperging out. I'll put a spoiler in when I'm not on my phone.