How did you feel about troons before they became mainstream?

[The Ugly One]

I used to think they were pornsick coomers who let a fetish take over their lives. At the time, I didn't realize they were pedophiles as well.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I thought of them as interesting and fascinating.

Just another weird mistake the body can make while forming.

And that's still true for the .2% of the population who actually have a biological reason for gender dysphoria.

All the rest of them are faking for either clout, as a fetish, a mental illness or as a way to get into female only spaces.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

I didn't feel anything about them. I knew they existed but had never saw one IRL and the one or two I had interacted online seemed normal enough, then in the mid/late 2010's I stumbled into a troon community and got to see the kind of degenerate shit they get up to. Seeing first hand the kind of creepy shit they do to 'crack the egg' kind of radicalised me overnight.

 

[TruffleSpark]

I was symapthetic in a vague sort of way. I had a "sure they're weird, but what's the harm" sort of attitude. I guess I bought into the idea that it actually was some sort of innate identity rather than just elaborate roleplay. Now I know all the "brain in wrong body" stuff is bunk science, I recently learned that Trans identified dementia patients revert to their original gender identity once their memories start to fade. And if they've had genital reassignment surgery their lives are a nightmare of not understanding why they have the wrong body now. Kind of kills the idea that chopping your dick off helps you to become your "true" self. Now I know that they are at best mentally ill sad sacks who have been sold the lie that they can cure their problems by pretending to be the opposite sex (they can't) and at worst sex predators who use their identity as a fake marginalised person to literally get away with crime.

 

[skykiii]

My answer is I basically didn't feel anything. Transexuals were a concept I had heard about (most notably because of Rocky Horror Picture Show) but otherwise never had much reason to think about.

They are pretty much a case of "if they hadn't become a big political issue I would probably have never known they were a real thing and never would have cared."

 

[Dasjas Watanid Tabas]

Never differentiated between different letters of LGBT pederasts until trannies started kicking off, now I see that some faggots are even more disgusting than I previously imagined.

 

[Shidoen]

I had the unfortunate knowledge of what a tranny was since I was 12 years old. I damn that pride march in Germany with the MLP flag on it.

 

[Tetragrammaton]

i was always pretty indifferent towards troons. i thought it was a bit weird but if they could handle all the looks they got simply because they were being their true self or whatever then who am i to judge?

 

[skykiii]

I damn that pride march in Germany with the MLP flag on it.

.... Germany had a pride march with a My Little Pony flag?

(not even memeing, if MLP has another meaning I've never heard it)

 

[Neighborhood Curmudgeon]

Before Current Year, I used to think they were a harmless obscure fringe minority. I never would have thought they would become the monstrosity they are today. Now I hate them with all my heart.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

felt uncomfortable

IIRC, the first time I ever heard about "transgender" was reading about some guy getting a "sex change", in some book on sexuality in the library while I was in high school, before Current Year. I remember getting this icky feeling about it, and the procedure and how the patient fared after felt so icky and fake to me then. I found that on my own, as there was no "LGBTQ+" in that school curriculum.

 

[Troon_Patrol]

I was always disgusted by them but, I felt sorry for them at the same time. They were obviously very confused, and most likely mentally ill by any standard, especially years ago, whenever you heard about someone wanting SRS their life tended to be going horribly wrong.

Mainstream, these days I feel it's somewhere between a fad and a cult, a plague on society really.

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

The only example I knew of back then was Chris-chan so now I think of it as Chris-chan's legacy.

 

[Lone Wandering Courier]

Before gay marriage was legalized federally I was still very young and naive so I didn't really know anything about it. I just know there was an article in the newspaper my grandparents get about a man who discovered he was really a woman and how this guy went bra shopping with his family I thought it meant this person was somehow actually female biologically and didn't know it. I also recall even earlier seeing on TV about woman who used to be men. I thought it was neat and didn't think much of it honestly.

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

I used to think the same thing that I do now:

They're mentally ill, it's not possible to change your sex, you're just mutilating yourself into a crude mockery of the opposite sex, it's not kind to affirm you in that delusion, it would be much better to just snap you out of it, etc.

Even as a teenager, the thought was horrifying, disgusting, and counter-intuitive. Even an elementary schooler can understand that sex is hardwired into your DNA, sex chromosomes, to be exact, even if he doesn't understand the exact process.

Now I'm laughing my ass of that not only was my initial assumption accurate, but that pretty much everything that has happened has affirmed not just my worst assumptions, but then some.

You made and shat the bed when you decided to be an enabler for willfully confused narcissists and retards, now you gotta sleep in it.

 

[Yamamura]

Back when the only knowledge of trannies were just ladyboys I remember as a child I just asked my dad, "why". Not out of contempt for anyone or distain but earnestly like why would someone do this to themselves and live their life like this. Honestly I just kinda felt bad for them, like how you feel bad for a schizophrenic person who is just that way by nature.

 

[Merton J. Dingle]

Didn't really have a strong opinion of them except that I was utterly disgusted by the blatantly non-passing ones and did not want to look at them.

Still recall how often that the AGPs were a joke on Jerry Springer in the day, including one that would wear his dead female relative's underwear and gleefully showed them off on a tape played before his stage appearance.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Never really had a strong opinion about them. They were mostly regulated to being the butt of jokes or objects of disgust in media (as it should be)

I don’t think I ever even saw a troon in real life until about 2014 or 2015 and by that point I’d seen my fair share of effeminate gay guys, butchy lesbians and an occasional drag queen, but even the drag queens were explicitly stated to just be gay guys putting on an act and it was strictly kept to adult audiences. Troons just weren’t talked about or thought of much until the mid 2010s when it seemed everyone lost their damn mind and now everyone and their dog is trooning out

 

[Mexican_Wizard_711]

IRL? nothing
Online? Indifference

 

[Lil Yappy]

Never thought about them much. My opinion was that they were the same level of freak as those people who tattoo their whole body and split their tongue to look like a lizard. I think I just associated it with extreme body modification like that.