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[–]JulienMayfair 30 insightful - 1 fun30 insightful - 0 fun31 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Reality check: Just remember that no one had heard of this nonsense just 10 years ago.

I was teaching at colleges until 2009, and I never heard anyone mention special pronouns. Nothing. Nada. Not a word. I sometimes had as many as 120 students per semester and never had a single student who identified themselves as trans. The whole issue of gender identity might as well not have existed.

Can you think of any phenomenon that's taken this seriously by so many people that basically came out of nowhere to become such a contentious issue in such a short span of time???

[–]julesburm1891 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I went to a small university in the early 2010s. There were two trans people on a campus of 5,000. Both were lesbians. There wasn’t a single non-binary person.

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

I was 26 before I even met a trans person. As far as I can remember, the topic was never even mentioned during my entire college education.