What peak-transed you?

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I can't nail it down to one event. As many here, I'm sure, this happened over the time. Many small cuts, so-to-say.

But one thing that really stuck with me and made me realize how this was going into a completely wrong direction was this: There is a drag performer who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2014. A few years after that I read an article about this performer and then made the mistake to look into the comments. And there were TRAs yelling at people who were correctly calling that person a "he" and being dramatic about how people "just don't GET it".

And with "correctly" I not only mean in the sense of "men cannot be women", but in the sense of "this is a gay man, who himself has mentioned that he identifies as a gay men openly many times, and who just has a stage persona as a drag queen". And these people were trying to trans him, essentially against his own will. (In fact, I think by now he has dumped this stage persona and only performs as himself anymore.)

Yeah, that was one of the moments that stuck with me in the sense of "WHERE is this headed?!".