ColonizationIf gay men asserting the fact that they are gay makes you suicidal, your lack of dating options is the least of your problems

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[–]JulienMayfair 23 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 0 fun24 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

gay men make me very dysphoric

Just the grammatical construction there reveals the problem. No, your dysphoria makes you dysphoric. Or maybe it's all the crazy ideas you absorbed from Tumblr or trans subreddits. It seems to be a feature of this generation that they are told to blame all their problems on someone else, as if the entire world is supposed to accommodate them.

I looked at the post history, and in photos, it's so obvious this person is female.

It's hard to be angry at this kid because, in the end, this is a kid who's been misled and sent down a path to misery. In the absence of that, maybe she would have had some rough teenage years and survived to become an adult able to deal with the real world. There's a reason why in the old protocols, transition was the treatment of last resort when nothing else worked for the treatment of dysphoria. It was never a great option.

[–]Rosefield 14 insightful - 13 fun14 insightful - 12 fun15 insightful - 13 fun -  (0 children)

Gay men: living their lives

Gaydens: REEEEEEE!

[–]CaptainMooseEx-Bathhouse Employee 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I can empathize with them if they have the sort of parents that refuse to let them have actual hobbies/interests so they are stuck living online after school, or who refuse to let them do age appropriate independent things like taking the bus or walking to a park, the mall, the library, etc.. I can empathize with them if they have the types of parents that micromanage them into only being friends with an approved list of classmates who are just as socially awkward and won't help them grow into being competent and successful adults. I can empathize with them feeling that desperate clawing feeling of needing to grow as a person and can sympathize with seeing transition as a means to put their foot down and start asserting a sense of self around adults who fail to grasp what adolescence is.*

But that stops the minute I remember there are actual gay teenage boys these little shits go to school with that have to put up with their harassment, that have to put up with them infesting the one (if any) age appropriate space for a gay teenager to be in to find other same-sex attracted peers, etc. I didn't start the GSA in my high school for it to lead to future gay and lesbian teenagers being the punching bags of these straight kids.

*While writing this, I realized that I feel that puberty blockers are poetically in line with the ways many of these parents are raising their kids. One stops the body from growing with long-term consequences (issues with bone density, physically underdeveloped, etc.) while the other stops the spirit from growing with long-term consequences (lack of support network, lack of a sense of self, etc.).