ammyn aten #transphobia #pratt

ammyn aten #transphobia #pratt youtube.com

I agree that both transtrenders exist and that as of this day in 2023, they are the widespread reason people dislike trans people. Im a bisexual cis male with a trans male partner, im perfectly accepting and tolerant of trans people, but it really makes me wish i wasnt because at this rate its a fad and a social contagion. I feel bad for people who deal with gender disphoria, who get compared with teens handling very normal feelings during adolescence and watching a few tik toks and suddenly thinking their half cow.

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suddenly thinking their half cow

Their half cow what, my name nat?

There is a certain, thankfully uncommon, breed of trans person who knew who they were at a very young age, have/had crippling dysphoria, lived through a nightmare which they wouldn’t wish on their worst enemy, very often transition(ed) later, and took comfort in the idea that people like themselves were extremely rare, even if it felt lonely. The fact that some young people aren’t yet sure who they are - not necessarily in matters of gender, but generally - plus the fact that those who did know they were trans early on often had/have family support from a young age and thus didn’t go through anywhere near the same degree of suffering, contradicts their lived experiences of what a “real” trans person is. In addition, the sharp rise in trans visibility circa 2013-2016 shows that while still rare, they’re nowhere near as rare as it once seemed.

As a result, a lot of the “trans people aren’t real” rhetoric makes sense from their perspective, but is countered by the fact that they are trans and real. So as a compromise, they end up with “*most* trans people aren’t real, but those with experiences very similar to mine are”.

ammyn aten #transphobia #pratt youtube.com

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