LifestyleHow many of your friends have transitioned?

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    [–]howdidthishappen 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    I do wonder if it is generational

    I think so absolutely. And the cut off is very small in my experience. I came out around 2008/09 and my first contact with others like me was via a rather popular forum for LGBT youth. Each letter had its individual sub forum and I remember the T forum had like 20 members lol. It wasn’t anything that was mentioned in the other forums or discussed in any way. Like truly no one gave a shit about what they were doing or chatting about (and I think that’s a good thing). They did their thing, we did ours.

    I don’t even remember anything regarding T coming up in the general forum, where LGB could mingle and just chat about general stuff, tv shows, news, hobbies all that.

    Then when I moved out five years later, I first came in contact with actual LGBT orgs and got active in them and still T wasn’t really a thing that’s acknowledged, because there wasn’t a single trans person in these groups and it just didn’t cross anyone’s mind. Went on for a few years like that and then their was this sudden change and now pretty much every younger lesbian/bi women I’ve met over the years has transitioned and it’s all they talk about. It’s weird as hell to have seen this happen in real time.

    [–]strawberrycake 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    I feel like I live in a parallel universe because my school experience was so different than what I hear now. In high school I didn’t know a single kid who identified as anything but a boy or a girl. I was online a lot too and chatted with a lot of gay/bi kids but no trans. Then in college not that long ago (early 2010s to mid 2010s) I knew only a handful of trans people. The large LGBT group I went to had maybe like one trans member. Pronouns weren’t really discussed. It’s hard to think how quickly this all happened.

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

    It really does feel like mass hysteria.