How did you feel about troons before they became mainstream?

[RybenZ999]

I honestly don't think I really held any strong opinions on them back then. Heck, I barely even knew much about them. I sort of grouped them and hermaphrodites in the same category. I guess you could say "passively weirded out, actively disinterested/oblivious"

 

[The Backwards Man]

I thought they were gay then and I think they're gay now.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

I knew of the existence of trannies, prior to Current Year. Never had much of an opinion about them, though. Mainly because they kept to themselves and the trannies which did exist were true trannies who didn't troon-out because it was cool.

 

[Grub]

I remember they were really annoying on 4chan and 8chan. They would flood threads with tranny porn and whined a lot.

I still remember the thread back in 2014-2015 or so when a bunch of trannies from 4chan decided they wanted to raid reality by convincing normies trannies should be allowed in women's bathrooms. Sure enough, a couple years later, that became a thing. The tranny bathroom shit started literally the same way the freebleeding meme did, as a 4chan prank.

 

[Londo]

It was just seen as a sexual thing before. Drag Queens, Dames, etc always existed but they were just gay men.

Out of nowhere it just seems to become a mainstream policy issue - thinking back on it, it's fucking weird and (((unusual))) how quickly that shit became a main talking point.

 

[Power Appreciator]

Troons didn't exist before they became mainstream

 

[Divine right to rule]

Weird sexual subculture of the gay community.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

didnt think of them much before they became mainstream. when they very first became mainstream i actually defended them, back in my much more naive days. i legit bought into the possibility that the whole "woman born in a man's body" might actually be real. god, im such a retard, no kidding.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

didnt think of them much before they became mainstream. when they very first became mainstream i actually defended them, back in my much more naive days. i legit bought into the possibility that the whole "woman born in a man's body" might actually be real. god, im such a retard, no kidding.

You can learn from your mistakes

 

[Otterly]

Very aware of people who have developmental disorders due to work/education. Always felt sympathy for that, must be very tough.
Actually trannies? Barely registered tbh. Never met one before all this started. Would probably have treated them the same way I’d treat a large venomous snake in the vicinity - polite but wary and keep distance. It’s obvious there’s some weirdness and deviance there and like many people I’d be polite but keep away

 

[Magicicada_septendecula]

My first exposure to trannies was trashy daytime talk shows in the 90s where they would sometimes fight each other. I thought they were nuts, but harmless to anyone not directly involved with them. As I got more politically conscious, I thought "oh great, another minority to cater to".

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Well, my first experience with trannies was back when my mom and I were getting donuts and in the line was a hairy-bearded guy in a skirt and heels. I thought they were just weird as a kid, as an adult I now know they are degenerate perverts.

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

I always felt uncomfortable about them, even when they were being mocked they still made me feel uncomfortable

 

[Schwarzwald]

I thought that they were perverts who were actually closeted homosexuals. I thought of it more as a fetish than anything, whereas now I understand it to be far more of a mental illness brought about by escalating porn addiction.

The first tranny I "knew" was online in 2008ish. It was pretty remarkable at the time and I treated it much more as a one-off unique to this gentleman as opposed to a future epidemic of cultural rot. He was a decent guy, but he had a wife and young kids, and I felt absolutely awful for them more than anything when he "realized" about himself. They tried to make it work, but I have no doubt at some point they wanted nothing to do with him. At the time I tried to be nice and respect that he prefered to be called a "she," but it was mostly just super bizarre. I couldn't really take him seriously anymore, and didn't really ask any personal questions about it. The guy was pretty knowledgeable about technology and was nice enough to have around on the site. He never demanded acceptance or even that people respect his pronouns. More than anything I felt bad for him afterward and pitied him. The only reason I was still willing to associate with him in any capacity was because of our prior familiarity, in any event.

I did my best to be libertarian about it at first and disapprove personally but treat it as none of my business in my forced limited interactions with the perverts, same as I tried to do with the gays, but that quickly proved impossible. They showed themselves to be unworthy of pity as my interactions with them and familiarity with them and their condition grew.

 

[Pomniman]

Unhinged degenerates like every other form of faggot. There are no good, normal, or sane ones in any part of the alphabet soup.

 

[WelperHelper99]

As a little kid back then, when I heard that they were people that chopped their dicks off, I thought they were crazy

 

[sadbird]

Didn't like them then and still don't. One time I was walking with a friend way back before it tried to become mainstream and I got told I had a chip on my shoulder. I'm feeling pretty vindicated now.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

I thought they were goofy and harmless, right up until they weren't.

 

[Matt Damon]

I thought they were as much of a joke as literally every person and piece of media did until like 2015, when they became infallible God-kings.

 

[Coolio55]

There were a bunch of people online I disliked who were troons but back then it was just another minor subculture in the giant whiny liberal miasma and I didn't think much about it. Little did I know how all encompassing it would become...

I was more angry at regular homos for the bad behaviour and institutional power that troons would soon usurp from them.