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Grow Some Labia's avatar

I can believe that *some* people come to this realization as adults. I read "The Transsexual Scientist" last year, a self-published account of someone born in the 1940s who always knew there was something different about himself but couldn't figure out what, although he was quite interested when Christine Jorgensen came out as the world's first transsexual. He had joined the army, become a neuroscientist and psychologist, and didn't transition until he was in middle age. He seemed pretty genuine and definitely didn't have anything around him to encourage him down this path unlike today's screwed-up kids. And, homosexuality and bisexuality can present later in life, so it's not beyond the ken to me that genuine dysphoria can too. But I mean *genuine*, not opportunists with suspicious agendas. You're right, most of them start to show signs as kids but they need to grow up first as most of them are simply gay rather than truly transsexual.

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Chris Fox's avatar

In my generation we would claim to be bisexual. Now they claim "trans."

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Grow Some Labia's avatar

Homosexuality isn't cool anymore, dude. No one gives a crap if someone 'comes out' about being gay. Now it's much cooler to claim to be 'trans'. or gendercrunchymcnuggets or whatever silly-ass label you care to slap on yourself.

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Chris Fox's avatar

Homosexuality has lost its shock value. It’s like being left-handed, a comparison that runs deep.

There were always gays desperate to be at the center of attention. Nobody cares anymore, so now we have people whose “trans”ness forms the foundation of endless tiresome grievances.

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I'm not as close to it as you are, but I don't recall gays as being so endlessly aggrieved. But it was a lot less political; the chronic trans grievance we see isn't about 'transphobia' but traditional entitled (often, but not always white) male grievance about feminism. The 'womanface' is just a costume for the performative 'outrage'.

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