Phalloplasty is even worse. I don't know how you can look at your flayed arm/leg and the necrotising skin tube sewn into your crotch and think "this is an upgrade", let alone "I'm a man". The implant component is particularly disturbing and absurd, imagine being mid-sex and having to pump up your skin tube like a flat tyre until it's "erect". Wouldn't existing like that simply rub it in even harder that no matter what you do to your body, you'll never be a man?

Once I saw a video of someone trying to pee with a "neopenis" and the pee was coming out of several holes along the length of the tube so there were 5 or 6 streams. Body horror.

No. I don't have a "gender identity". I don't "identify" with/as my sex, the same way I don't "identify" with/as my height or eye colour. I suppose I identify with an archetype of person that's traditionally portrayed as male, but that doesn't make me male, because my sex isn't male.

I don't think "cis" people, as defined by the trans community, actually exist. Normal people don't conform to gender expectations because an inherent sense of maleness or femaleness drives them to do so. They do it so they can be considered attractive and valuable in society. The trans community likes to claim that "cis" people also need to be "affirmed" and experience "gender euphoria". No, they want to belong and be desirable, and so they will do whatever is required to achieve that, which depends on the sex they happen to be.

Normal people are not "euphoric" about their sex characteristics. In day-to-day life they view them as mundane at best and inconvenient at worst. They have positive feelings towards their sex characteristics when other people find them desirable.

Wishing to be the opposite sex is common and normal, because there are advantages and disadvantages in being either sex. Normal people have experiences that the trans community would categorise as "gender dysphoria", and it's not a big deal to them.

Non-trans people aren't perfectly programmed NPCs who are entirely content with their sex and conforming to gender stereotypes/expectations. What the trans community refers to as "non-binary" is a regular person.

videos of trans and nonbinary people laughing at detrans experience

Insane mean-spirited shit. I once saw a post online where a FtM was mocking a female detransitioner's baldness and saying "I have a full head of hair, you have shit genetics, sucks to be you".

let's pretend that detransition is THAT simple and detrans people are just a bunch of idiots who transitioned even though they didn't want to (when in fact most of us sincerely believed it would save us). they simply think people can't change and grow

This ideology of "if an 'identity'/label no longer applies to you, you were faking the whole time" is nuts. No one has a fully formed inborn "true self", the self is constantly evolving.

6 months of thinking and spending time around egg_irl and thinking that I would press the button to switch to the opposite sex if I could

Egg culture is brainrot, it's a bunch of gender-obsessed people overanalysing normal feelings and concluding that those feelings are symptoms of gender dysphoria or "signs" that they need to transition. Being dissatisfied with one's sex characteristics is completely normal (a lot of sexed anatomy is inconvenient), as is disliking society's gender roles/expectations (which are often restrictive and unfair), or being curious about the opposite sex's experience. I suspect that pretty much everyone with a functioning imagination has thought "what if I were the opposite sex" at least once, and many people have thought "maybe life would be better if I were the opposite sex" on at least one occasion.

Many egg memes are really shallow (a lot of them are about clothes) and vague (I once saw one claiming that generic mental health symptoms like dissociation and restlessness were "lesser-known symptoms of gender dysphoria"). They just seem like they're trying to convince as many people as possible to transition.

the idea that the denial of an internal identity results in the existential torture and death of the individual

It's impossible for others to perceive you the same way you perceive yourself. The demand that they do so is one of the most unreasonable aspects of the movement.

I don't hate trans people as individuals. I disagree with their mindset and worldview, but I don't wish harm upon them.

I believe in personal freedom for adults, so I think that adults should be able to do body modification if they want, and they shouldn't be subjected to violence or discrimination because of it. Disagreement with someone's views is not violence or discrimination. I can simultaneously not believe in gender identity and be courteous to people who do, the same way that I can simultaneously not believe in Jesus and be courteous to people who do.

The trans community demands something impossible: that others perceive them the same way they perceive themselves. This is beyond courtesy, this is restricting freedom of thought/speech. An individual is free to believe what they want, and others are free to disagree with/criticise their beliefs.

Equating disagreement with someone's worldview to denial of their existence is absurd. If I thought that someone didn't exist, I wouldn't be debating them.

trans people are trying to brainwash kids

I don't think most of it is deliberate "brainwashing", but the trans community does push manipulative catastrophizing narratives like "transition or suicide". The "egg" thing is also quite insidious as it involves persuading people that they are "in denial" if they have doubts about transition.

It has always been clear that there are two types of human bodies and both are needed in the process of creating more humans (which at some point was termed "reproduction"). That's what sex has always referred to. How else would people have differentiated those who were husbands and fathers from those who were considered their property?

I think most people who identify as asexual are uninterested in sex because of depression, hormonal issues, medication, or simply being children/teens who haven't finished puberty. (I thought I was asexual as a teenager, but I just developed late.) They had to make asexuality a "spectrum" because most of these asexual-identified people discover that they are in fact interested in sex (because their mental or physical health improved, or they got older), but they can't stop identifying as asexual because identity labels are supposed to be unchangeable. So the definition of "asexual" was expanded to include people who do want and enjoy sex.

There's no point in identifying as asexual anyway, no one cares and it's no one's business if you're uninterested in sex. The "asexual spectrum" labels for people who are in fact interested in sex are even more pointless. These people have come up with a convoluted definition for "sexual attraction" so they can claim that they still lack sexual attraction despite wanting and enjoying sex. Who even cares, being this type of "asexual" is functionally the same as not being asexual. Apparently "demisexuality" counted as a type of asexuality; it means only wanting sex with people with whom you have an emotional connection, which is very common and normal.

It boils down to this "everyones feelings are 100% valid 100% of the time" way of thinking. No, not all feelings are valid, and no, not all desires should be acted on.

Yeah. I've found it helpful to take on the philosophy that people are defined not so much by their urges, as how they respond to them. It's more practical.

Reminds me of how people will say stuff like "dreams reveal your true feelings" and "getting drunk brings out your true self". That's bullshit; your rationality, conscience and self-restraint are part of your true self just like your feelings and impulses.

making carrds that list pronouns, "alters", "kins", "triggers", DNI etc.

I've seen this, and I don't get why someone would publicly post triggers or DNI. "Here are all the most effective ways you can troll me".

women getting hooked on yaoi and deciding that they're actually "gay men"

As someone who is attracted to men and has AAP tendencies, I have strong opinions about this lol. I fantasise about my favourite male characters, but never engaged with the fujoshi subculture because I find it off-putting.

I don't know about lesbians, but masculine straight women are hated on all the time, especially by other women. Other women accuse them of being "pickmes" who are trying to be "not like the other girls" for male attention, and insist that they are repressing their femininity because of "internalised misogyny".

For example, the "not like the other girls" subreddit (at least at the time I looked at it) is mostly women calling tomboys tryhards and posers who are desperate to be "picked" by men, and claiming that they secretly like pink, makeup, pop music, etc. but are denying it because of "internalised misogyny".

One of the top posts of all time on that sub is a FtM saying "I finally figured out why I'm not like the other girls, it's because I'm a boy". The comments were heaping praise on this person and complimenting their appearance, including their "chiselled facial structure" that was clearly painted on with makeup.

I suspect that some of this hostility towards straight tomboys is born out of jealousy. These people are probably mad that men want partners who are relatable and share their interests. I also find it ironic that when a man says that a woman is faking her masculine interests to appeal to men he's a misogynist, but when a woman says the same thing she's an insightful "girl's girl" or whatever.