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[–]Newzok 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah I agree, largely. Historically there's been some overlap, but still fringy even then. Which is OK. It's just the last decade where it's gone off the rails a bit, with entitlement that is unearned. The trend will turn, I have no doubt: let us not lose our communities over it.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Historically most trans people were homosexual with internalised homophobia. But that was when transexual and transvestite were understood to be two very different things. We all knew that transvestites were straight men who got turned on by wearing women's clothes and nobody celebrated that. It was creating the transgender identity that incapsulated both of those groups that has led to all the crazy shit that's happening. Because, for one, there are more transvestites than transexuals. And, while for the most part transexuals just want to be allowed to live their lives, transvestites are fetishists for the vast majority of humans, when we indulge fetishes, they aren't sated, they grow. And society isn't currently just validating this fetish, it's celebrating the people who indulge in it, for indulging and it's creating a monster.

[–]Newzok 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah the gender term is genius. Suddenly you get confusion around both. Eddie Izzard, transgender? Nah he's a transvestite, though he claims otherwise now. I guess transvestites are often the ones referred to as AGP, right?

I've noticed the weird tendency to create a persona that then takes over more and more. Referring to it with a name; "and then I become Jessica" etc. We should get back to the old ways. Gender is too vague to be meaningful. You rarely hear of the female equivalent, I reckon it's because women do this for other reasons(anecdotal, but my token ftm trans friend seems to want to escape the 'toxic' male gaze and being perceived as female, but not much mention of male interests, nor sex. Also reads yaoi.). Despite my skepticism I'm sympathetic, as it probably sucks, and I'm cough morbidly curious to see the trajectory.