8 out of 9 girls at school decided to de-transition because of lockdown

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[–]Femaleisnthateful 28 insightful - 1 fun28 insightful - 0 fun29 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

On the flip side, so many youths are indoctrinated via social media, and young people are spending even more time online as a result of lockdown.

[–]MinisterOfTerfery 32 insightful - 1 fun32 insightful - 0 fun33 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

True, but gender and transitioning is all about how other people see you, if no one other than your family sees you there is no point.

[–]MarkTwainiac 27 insightful - 1 fun27 insightful - 0 fun28 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

transitioning is all about how other people see you

I think it's more about how these people want and think other people see them.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's an interesting point, but I don't think it covers all the etiologies of trans identification. The ROGD phenomenon is arguably driven by a maladaptive coping mechanism by young females with mental health issues. These mental health issues are often exacerbated by social media and online activity. Maybe people in real life won't see them, but there are all sorts of online forums (Tumblr, Reddit) where youth can perform transition and be celebrated for it.

[–]MarkTwainiac 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, and they're all over other social media posting selfies and videos of themselves posing in their different outfits, trying out different postures, faces, hairstyles, makeup and accessories, and generally performing their "gender identities." Tons of this stuff on TikTok and YouTube.

Somebody on YT does compilation vids of the "best" of the most recent trans and non binary Tik Toks. They're all of very self-absorbed young people - mostly girls who think they look like boys but who of course don't at all - performing, and sometimes hectoring other people about pronoun use and how awful terfs are too.

In the old days, adolescents and young adults used to deliver our/their mirror monologues in the privacy of their/our own bedrooms and bathrooms so navel-gazing was a usually solitary act, done for and involving one's self only. Now adolescents take pics and vids and plaster these embarrassing moments of theirs - and their mental health problems - all over the internet for the world to see, unaware that others might see them in a far less flattering light than they want to be seen.

It's like they don't realize that the behavior of Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver" was presented as a cautionary tale, not something to emulate:

https://youtu.be/lQkpes3dgzg

[–]fuckupaddams 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is true. My god damn 11 year old sister already got steeped in it. I had a long talk with her about what it all means (she was saying her pronouns are they/them) and I only hope she really understood what I was telling her.

[–][deleted] 24 insightful - 2 fun24 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

For my niece who went off lupron and went from trans to enby during lockdown, it was being away from the curriculum being taught. That gender bs wasn't in the online classes for some reason. Not having adults hammer it into your head makes a difference, as well as yeah nobody's looking at you so who are you performing for.

[–]PinkDonut 26 insightful - 1 fun26 insightful - 0 fun27 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That "Grace" Lavery guy complained on Twitter a while ago how online classes mean that he can't talk to his (university) students openly about gender because the parents may overhear. So I'm guessing a number of other teachers also think twice knowing mum or dad may be in the room and ready to intervene if someone starts preaching this shit to their kids.

[–]Finnegan7921 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Of course they did; they weren't in their echo chamber with all the other nutballs constantly spewing bullshit to each other about how they're all trans and being fed lies about how awesome it is to be trans. It is a form of mass hysteria brought on by social media clout culture; tick more boxes, gain more clout. It is trendy to be some weird gender, teens will chase trends to be cool. Being home all the time means more parental supervision and they probably can't spend hours looking at w/ever shit on the internet led them down this dark path of insanity to begin with.

[–]Kai_Decadence 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I can't say I'm surprised by this. It's pretty obviously why this happened and it has to do with lack of attention. Aside from not being exposed to the gender bullshit they're peddling in schools these days, these kids are also not being able to show off and receive attention or ass pats from people IRL because of the lockdown/quarantine. It's kinda like when you ask these genderspecials how they would feel if they were stuck on an island by themselves with no other person on it, would they still feel like they are "trans" or "Non-binary" and while you normally don't get an answer, they get those cogs in their brain spinning and we all know most would drop it. This is just a form of that at work.

[–]QueenBread 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Y'know, usually I regret not being able to take part in mass beliefs, because that often cuts me off from social trends, like an outcast. But in this case, boy, am I glad I'm not capable of bending my thoughts to feel part of the masses! That means as a kid I wouldn't have fallen to gender ideology just because everyone did.

[–]MrFahrenheit46 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yep. Happened to me.