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- Aug 11, 2020
It's not even that. It's just a bad idea allowed to fester and choke the life out of rational ideas. A mania that tells you something is true, even though it's demonstrably false. No different than anorexics seeing themselves as fat, or people who think one of their limbs doesn't belong to them and want it removed, or people who think their loved ones have been replaced by impostors.
The only difference with the "new wave" is that these people are under the real influence of that mania, while the new ones are jumping on a bandwagon*, giving themselves a non-standard identity in this identity-obsessed stage of society, doing it for attention, really drinking the ideological kool-aid that's being fed to them, or simply taking a fetish, like AGP, way too far.
*I had a bit in this part that kept growing into an unfocused tangent, so I'll put a gist of it here: from the late 90s to the late 2000's, there was a phenomenon (academically studied, even) of subcultures (or, as some places called them, "social tribes") becoming stronger and stronger identities for young people, usually with their own sets of values and aesthetics. Sure, there always were groupings like jocks/preps/nerds, or things like Punks or Hippies, but during that decade, many groups like that popped up. Emos, scene kids, hardcore, and many other local variations, I'm sure you can name a bunch if you were around at the time.
Almost every one of these group identities vanished almost overnight when the collective focus of society shifted from interests and personality to race and sexuality.
So what I'm saying is, had most of the "queer" youths of today been born 10 to 15 years earlier, they'd jumped onto those bandwagons and would be wearing gas masks and dancing to cyber-goth techno rather than "discovering their soul doesn't match their body" or some nonsense.
