I can’t help but notice similarities between a lot of trans women and the stereotypical “toxic male/masculinity”

Overly aggressive, quick to anger, quick to spring to insults, overdeveloped ego/self of self, thinks their opinions on something are “the truth” or are objectively superior to others’ opinions, and more that I’m probably forgetting.

obviously not all of them are like that but it seems like a rather strong and disturbing correlation to me.

I’ve kind of noticed a similar thing with mtf people. A lot of mtf seem to be obsessed with cute things to a degree that no woman would be. From plushies to clothing to computer keyboards to room decorations. It’s almost singularly all cutesy stuff.

And they also never seem to grow out of it either.

“Minimum age should be 21.”

Personally I think that’s when a lot of legal adult stuff should be. Gun ownership, voting, military service/drafting, and more tbh. It gives you more time to learn how the world works and more time for the brain to develop.

They’re so desperate to label anything they don’t like as right-wing/alt-right. Ironically feels similar to all those people calling things “woke.” They just use it as a rhetorical cudgel to describe anything they don’t like not even because it’s a useful term for describing something but because it gets them brownie points amongst their in-group. So now both “alt-right” and “woke” have no meaning.

I’ve seen people describe difficulty sliders in the new Doom game as “woke.” And I’ve seen people describe fitness as “alt-right.” It’s so stupid.

Also as harsh as it may seem to say this: I’m pretty sure being intersex is kind of akin to a biological glitch so to speak. Because almost all intersex people are sterile. So saying sex is a spectrum because of intersex people is kind of misunderstanding what intersexuality is in the wider evolutionary/biological picture.

It would be like saying having a number of limbs is a spectrum because some people are born with fewer or more than 4 of them. Yeah that’s technically true, but biologically speaking this isn’t supposed to happen.

Yeah this might be a report to discord situation bro.

Also can’t wait for when people start having heart attacks en masse because they get sucked into this thing and their body didn’t react well to it. Seriously, this is like if a bunch of chronic hypertensive people got together to encourage DIY blood pressure medicine. There’s a reason you don’t do it without a doctor, because you don’t know how your body will react to that shit. how is this any different from encouraging unsupervised taking of blood pressure medicine?

I kind of feel like detransitioned rates have always been false because for a while the whole single digit percentage stat was based on the stuff from gender clinics, which not only have a conflict of interest in reporting accurate stats but also I feel like most detrans people are not going to report back to a place that traumatized them/made their trauma worse.

There’s also the fact that what it means to be trans has become so watered down nowadays that it basically makes the term meaningless and will therefore make the term detrans meaningless.

Here’s an example (albeit fairly exaggerated) of what I mean: a boy wonders what it is like to be a girl and someone argues that makes them trans. But if he decides not transition, that would, by doing some mental gymnastics, mean that he is detrans. Thus he gets added to the statistic when he really shouldn’t. And that skews the data.

First of all this is basically an ad hominem towards the people who participate in Detrans day and says nothing about why the day actually exist.

Second of all: this is like saying people who celebrate something on September 11 have no empathy towards the victims and their families of the 9/11 attacks. Or that people who celebrate something on November 22 have no empathy towards the Kennedy family, or….

As cold of an observation as it may be, people die every day. Or even if you want to make it about suicide, people kill themselves every day. So the logical conclusion of this line of thinking would be to just not celebrate anything because someone killed themselves that day.

I think one thing people are also forgetting is that our brains are wired to call attention to when things stick out. The rarer something is the more it is going to stick out (and this isn’t always a good thing).

The thing is trans people who go through HRT are not common enough to normalize themselves. I don’t really follow population statistics but I think even the most generous estimates put trans individuals at 5% or less of the population, with some estimates putting them below even a single percent. Never mind that nowadays you don’t need to go through HRT to be considered trans. So they naturally stick out. And again, this isn’t always a good thing.

I said it in another post but I’ve often found that communities that obsess over “acceptance and love” are the first ones that will come after your hide when you express the wrong opinion about something. Relationships that I’ve fostered where we disagree on certain things and agree on others have often felt more real to me. Whether they be political, social, economic, or whatever. And it has the added benefit of us being able to influence each other and possibly get one another to shift opinions on certain things. It leads to a much more nuanced discussion of topics than what I’ve encountered anywhere else.

TL;DR: fuck conditional love.