r/honesttransgender had the most sane post of the last 24 hours and it was deleted by the moderators: "Maybe it's too late, and this is what the trans movement has become, and this is how it ends."

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

i totally agree with you. My question is though: why did it take hold so fast and so far? Why are people all of a sudden going nuts?

[–]ClassroomPast6178 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I don’t think they’ve suddenly gone nuts, I think this has bloomed over the past decade with the rise of social media and the increasing importance that the lazy media has placed on what some twat said on twitter or instagram.

I can’t imagine any of this happening if the media hadn’t become so lazy and reliant on twitter hot-takes. And twitter et al wouldn’t have the status that they have now without the media treating it as a man on the street instead of the lunatic in the corner that it really is.

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

Transgenderism would have never caught hold in previous decades, and by suddenly I'm referring to the point at which is took hold and gained traction. Why now? I think things really got crazy starting in 2016.

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

They'd already made some serious gains decades ago, let's not forget many countries have had the legal right to change your sex on official documents a decade or more before they legalised same sex marriage. As for why it's exploded over the last decade, a mixture of social media allowing for social contagions to spread even faster and to allow a variety of freaks to find each other when previously they would have been isolated cases and would have learned to become normal(ish). As well as a number of charities desperate to keep the gravy train going after gay marriage was pushed through. Look at how many charities which previously focussed on gay rights now heavily push trans stuff, often to the detriment of their previous causes. Then of course there's the financial aspect, both on an industrial level and an individual level (certain high profile billionaires pushing it for their own interests).

[–]ClassroomPast6178 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah. The Gender Recognition Act 2004 allowed people to alter their legal gender after a set of qualifications.

Now they’re trying to get rid of the qualifications. They’ve played a long game, well over 25 years of lobbying for the fetish to be recognised as “real”.