I hate the current culture on pronouns. Demanding someone to address you in a certain way is (and always will be) narcissistic asf. I'm in the same boat as you are, I stopped caring about pronouns or how people addressed me and never really got into the "they/them" pronoun culture even if I'm androgynous presenting, I dont care if they use it on me though, but I wont go around policing people if they misgender me and will only correct them if the situation calls for correction (e.g. dealing with documents).

Tht culture of "shaming into silence" came from older people (actual boomers) shaming younger folks for being "lazy", "entitled" and "incompetent" when theyre in fact they have been demoralized, underpaid and have been less sociable/lacking social skills than their older counterparts during that young age. The calling out of karen /boomer behavior was a response to that.

There is a reason why younger people seek dangerous ways (like gender ideology) to feel like they belong or try to feel good/better about themselves since the older generation has failed to be compassionate towards us.

Millenials who are now parents are "overly compassionate" trying to overcompensate for the damage the boomers caused them that theyre also doing damage to the next generation by promoting/practicing gender ideology.

Its not a matter if you're "not trans" or not cuz a lot of detrans folks actually have/had gender dysphoria. It's mostly about weighing your options, transition or desist/detrans and learn to live with your dysphoria.

For me, after learning how HRT affects the body later in life, I chose to not to go through transitioning. I already have a slew of health condtions and I do not wish to add to it. I believe that even if I do HRT, I still won't be the opposite sex, I'd just be my sex with a hormonal imbalance that I'd inflict upon myself (and possibly along with a botched surgery). I still have dysphoria but I chose to deal with it without transitioning.

However, there are folks who have dysphoria that is bad enough that transitioning is their only way of dealing with it and it was the right choice for them but they are few and far between. Those who are happy with their transition from my observation also have had realistic expectations in transitioning and its limitations (also that it doesn't get rid of dysphoria entirely). Remember that committing to transitioning can mean lifetime of medication and possible complications (transition regret can also come from complications btw), if that's an acceptable risk for you then that's your choice to make.

Seconding this. Also you must be mentally prepared for the possibility of getting doxxed, dealing with death and rape threats, and harrassment from TRAs both irl and online.

If you're in a bad/depressive state, please don't do it for the sake of your mental health. If you do have a strong support system, you'd still have to think of how to deal with the things mentioned above but by the end of the day, if you were to help a single person not make an irreversible mistake then it's all worth it imo.

Seconding King Critical. He's the only GC content creator so far that provides clean and coherent commentary.

Sailor Uranus is another good commentary channel as an alternative to King Critical but there's not much content from her yet.

Might be a bit OT but Ranma 1/2 was written by a woman (her name is Rumiko Takahashi), and I never got autogynephilic vibes from that show since the entire premise of the show was Ranma trying to get rid of the curse that was accidentally placed on him (he doesnt get off of having the genderbend ability and sees it as mostly bothersome cuz it gets him into trouble, but he eventually learns to live with it and learns to adapt to being physically weaker and vulnerable when he turns female).

Modern genderbending shows do give autogynephilic vibes tho, Ore Twintail ni Narimasu is the worst offender I have come across so far, it's basically about a guy who fetishized twintails so much he wanted to be a girl in order to be able to wear twintails.

Avoid social media, grab a book, watch a movie, do a self care routine, play a sport, go touch grass and meet other/new people that isnt into the ideology. Thats the only way. Avoid woke/propaganda media and distract yourself with self-improvement basically.

Depends on what you meant by transitioning.

If its like a body swap then I would do it (like say cloning myself as the opposite sex then my consciousness is transferred to that new body).

If its the same amounts of surgery and hormone therapy then I wouldn't. Its not worth the pain and life long medication imo.

Yeah there is a medical bias against females and its a well-documentented phenomenon (among both male and female medical providers btw). The problem of males when it comes to medicine is that they dont seek help but when they do they are more likely to be taken seriously. In contrast to when females do seek help, most medical professional think theyre just overreacting or being hysterical.

Another phenomenon that I noticed (its not well documented but its the common anectdote I hear among female patients usually those who are suffering from female reproductive conditions like endo for example) is that male medical providers are the ones who are more likely to actually listen to them and their concerns and female medical providers are usually the ones who dismiss their concerns so easily and chuck it up as being overreactive. So internalized misogyny is actually pretty common in the medical world.

Be one of the good guys. Be strong to be able to help defend the vulnerable. Breaking the male stereotype only works if enough males don't follow the stereotype.

You can't change being male, what you can change is how you act towards females. So in other words, not being an asshole is practically enough to get rid of the male guilt imo.