Don't be so pessimistic, fren. Selfconscious trannies are more common than you think.
Did all these neopronouns and xenogenders come back out of the woodwork because of the end of the Trump administration? That seems to be the main factor, as all of this almost completely disappeared during those four years, you still heard about non-binary but that's about it.
My experience has been quite the opposite - if anything, it’s gotten a lot
more visible in 2017-20.
Granted, that might just be because I’m drawn to some weird corners of the internet (Tumblr and its weird MOGAI blogs), but it definitely gained a wider audience in the spaces just outside of these corners. People who weren’t heavily involved in weird gender stuff seemed to come into contact with it anyway, and began to have an opinion on it. This was around the time when (I assume) most big-name gatekeepers like Mogai-Watch became popular on Tumblr. A few other large blogs like System-Lgbt (formerly System-Mogai) and Pride-Flags-For-Us pivoted away from Mogai, in favour of more mainstream LGBT+ acceptance.
But the ones who stayed Mogai - they remained as weird as they ever were. Gatekeeping only made them even more aggressively weird. Genders based on ‘____core’ aesthetics, weird-arse pronouns like nounself and emojiself, Galactican alignments, and so on were all codified during this period, as well as the insistence on making a flag for everything, including combinations of pronouns. Very autistic blogs with the aim of aggregating as many of these identities as possible also seemed to be a fixture of this period.
Like I say, this all happened
during the Trump administration, with the last big wave of Truscum gatekeeping happening towards maybe the beginning of it. I suppose it could at least be
possible that it brought on a more conservative approach to gender, fuelled by respectability politics against a perceived shift towards right-wing populism, but I really,
REALLY doubt that was the case. Tumblr types (even those who avoid xenogender and mogai stuff) have never been ones for respectability politics, and view almost any compromise by their own side as an attempt to join the other side.
If anything, the reason for the sudden mainstreaming of xenogenders during the Biden administration is that the Mogai enthusiasts suddenly found a new host to infect: Tiktot. This network only
really got big (like, mainstream levels in the west) within the last year, and it seems to be a lot more effective at spreading those ideas beyond their initial niche audience than Tumblr would have been.
TL;DR blame the Chinese government.
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