you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]reluctant_commenter 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes. I relate so much to your post. It has worn me down and made me feel both helpless and hopeless about the world. It's disheartening to see so many people around me buy into a homophobic ideology that is completely delusional-- transgender ideology. I made a post about this recently.

I don't think it's petty of you at all. LGB and GNC people-- kids, teens, adults-- are feeling pressured to pump hormones into their otherwise healthy bodies and chop off organs just because they don't match up with society's idea of what a "real man" or "real woman" should look like, act like, feel like. It's the old homophobic belief, brought to life all around us: "A gay man is actually a woman in a man's body; a lesbian woman is actually a man in a woman's body." So many lives are being harmed by this lie :( of course it will affect LGB/GNC people deeply. It sure has affected me deeply, at least. And it's destroyed my trust in so many straight people who I thought were "allies." They fancy themselves saviors but in attempting to "save" LGB and GNC people with drugs and unnecessary surgeries, they have only harmed our people more.

Always down to talk more about this topic. It's really hit me hard the last three or four months... I used to be super active on saidit, but now I really struggle with getting the motivation to talk about these topics-- or motivation for much of anything, really-- because it makes me feel so hopeless.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah... I try to come here less often too, or to even stop being so "critical". Now when anything unpleasant concerning TQ+ happens, I just feel deeply sad, but don't engage with it. I let it slide, and move on. I think that what hurt the most, is how people managed to eat all that shit up so fast. Now they firmly believe that you're closed minded if you're not accepting enough of pure nonsense. They treat you like a mean asshole for standing your ground. And you can't rest and truly avoid TQ+ stuff anymore either, so you have to just accept it exist and learn to live with it. People you though would stand for you won't, because they're progressive and we're "gatekeeping" or whatever. That's so strange.

Anyway if you need to talk or anything, my DMs are open, feel free to reach ! I could also truly use the company. Even if we just exchange sob-stories everytime :') it would feel less lonely.