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[–]reluctant_commenter 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't get how these relationships go on for so long.

There's probably a lot of guilt-tripping going on in them. "You'd be a bad person if you left me just because I'm trans!" Among people in my gen, feeling ashamed for not seeming "open-minded" enough seems very common.

[–]Finnegan7921 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is part of the social contagion driven by social media. People are deathly afraid of being "outed" as some form of bigot b/c news of it will spread like wildfire. I can't even imagine on a college campus what dumping one of these loons would do to a person, b/c within hours that person would be denounced as a nazi transphobe instead of a person who just wanted a normal relationship without insane amounts of drama.