The numbers have never added up to me. Not just how many are mods, but how many trans-identifying people there are online generally. They far outnumber LGB people online and they make it hard to discern our own numbers when they colonize our spaces and hijack them to serve their roleplaying. I wonder how many of them are only "trans" online. I've suspected that for a lot of them it's kind of an online RPG that they compartmentalize from IRL and that they devote most of their time to their RPG rather than real life. Kind of like how some people get addicted to the Sims, Second Life, and the like. So many of them claim to be in relationships, but they're online-only relationships.

Maybe some of them are "trans" when they're at work too because so many of them work in tech remotely from home and likely have little to no "face time" at work. Then they get the benefit of work discrimination protections to hold over employers and colleagues since their actions as Reddit mods show how much they love power tripping and playing the victim. Even better, they get to claim they're "closeted" out of fear of "transphobia."

I live in a very gay area but there aren't actually a lot of trans people in the gay establishments, which are overwhelmingly populated by gay/bi men, and which are not very "queer." I see some trans women but nowhere near with the degree of frequency as online. Same with the few times I've been to a lesbian bar in the last few years. They've been there but they're far outnumbered by women. And in the lesbian bar that I went to that was overwhelmingly black, they were non-existent. Their footprint is still huge though. They have everyone catering to them, they get put on LGBT boards and use them to grift, they and their fellow queer/non-binary opportunists hijack organizations, events, and charities, etc. I've come across a high concentration of them in a therapy setting (overwhelmingly female) and they were pretty much all pre-everything pronoun people. I see way more trans women in online dating than IRL but they're all so low effort it's very easy to imagine they just go about their day-to-day lives as men, you know, as cross-dressers generally always have.