[–] SevenAsterisks 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
In an ideal world, we'd just fucking leave it alone, you know? Someone says "I feel like I'm in the wrong body." The psychiatrist says "Yeah, there's no cure for that, possibly the only thing that's going to make you feel better is a transition." So they do their transition and no one gives a shit. That's what would happen in an ideal world.
But of course we don't live in an ideal world, so everyone has to get all up in everyone else's shit. There has to be one side that ENCOURAGES and CELEBRATES and BRINGS VISIBILITY to the phenomenon, and there has to be one side that CONDEMNS and REVILES and SUPPRESSES DEGENERACY.
My former best friend was trans. She told me to stop calling her Dan and start calling her Vivian. I said "How about I call you V?" She said "fine." I said "Okay, that's probably the last we ever have to talk about that." I mean, I wasn't going to fuck her before and I wasn't going to fuck her after, so what really changed? She wore a dress instead of a Weird Al T-shirt. Like I give a shit.
And it could have been the last we ever talked about it. We could have gone on playing in the band and chatting about game theory. But she got incredibly invested in trans ideology and became an unrecognizable person to me, and then said she needed to stop being friends with me.
shrug
Clown world, man.