Detrans / desist / resist - Anyone here ever identify as trans, or seriously consider doing so?

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[–]WinstonSmithTired of being nice 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

felt pressured to identify as trans

That describes me to a T (No pun intended :D). Back when I was a dumb teenager on Tumblr, I identified as "nonbinary demigirl asexual" because I felt that if I said I am a heterosexual woman, everyone would hate me and attack me for being an ~evil cishet oppressor~ or whatever. That's why I keep saying it's social contagion - when you're young and impressionable and everyone around you is transing themselves and telling you that you're a bad person for being straight and not denying your biological sex, it's natural that you feel out of place and want to fit in. Also why I keep saying that this is the new cutting and anorexia, only ten times more dangerous and harmful...

The "if you're questioning, that means you are" rhetoric can be extremely harmful in this case. Being bi-curious in college isn't harmful to you in the long run, taking wrong-sex hormones and getting a double mastectomy is.

I assumed, at a surface level, that the same logic about the gay rights movement applied to the trans rights movement..

That's the problem, average people support the TQ+ without questioning it only because they already support the LGB. What they don't know is that trans demands directly contradict LGB rights, and that trans ideology is homophobic at its core...

[–]Eurowoman24 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

GLAD I starved and puked instead of lobbed my tits off because of my friends influence nowadays

[–]WinstonSmithTired of being nice 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Same, recovered from anorexia a few years ago, my body's finally doing OK. My trans-identified female acquaintance, on the other hand... :(

I keep recommending "Irreversible Damage" to all parents I know, hopefully they'll listen. We spread awareness about pro-ana blogs back in the day, but now people who warn about ROGD and the transing of children are silenced, wonder why :/

[–]Eurowoman24 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

oh shit, regrets the transition does she? Yes it's curious isn't it? I mean the only thing that comes to mind is money and the people wanting to profit from this..

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

because I felt that if I said I am a heterosexual woman, everyone would hate me and attack me for being an ~evil cishet oppressor~ or whatever.

THIS is why it is so messed up that TRAs are sitting there and claiming being straight or "cis" is evil!!!

I look down upon anyone who uses any metric, categorization or demographic feature to say, "Some humans are worth less than others." We will NOT make progress by shaming people for existing as they are.

I am so sorry you felt pressured into participating in this madness as well. Thanks for sharing your story. I look forward to the day when no one cares what sexuality we are, with no conservative homophobia or liberal homophobia and no shaming of people for something they can't change.

edit: Also, exactly this. I think you put this really well:

That's the problem, average people support the TQ+ without questioning it only because they already support the LGB. What they don't know is that trans demands directly contradict LGB rights, and that trans ideology is homophobic at its core...