All of this was the perfect storm of insanity.
After gay marriage became legalized, and institutional homophobia largely became a thing of past times, special interest activist groups like Stonewall began to fervently search for the next "thing" to justify and perpetuate their continued existence (along with their millions in funding). This came in the form of 'trans rights'.
These groups were then propelled by the typical social justice crusaders whose entire existence is framed in the feeling of 'fighting oppressors', alongside the likes of so-called 'intersectional feminists'. With all of these sort's past legitimate movements like women's suffrage, civil rights, and gay marriage already well in the rearview mirror, this was the next group that would embolden their never-ending thirst for an external purpose to their existence.
Once we hit terminal velocity on the polarization and tribalism in the late 2010s, thanks primarily to social media, transgenderism was pushed to the forefront of political identification and activism - leading many to self-identify into the newest 'oppressed' class, while continuously pushing the definition of such into an increasingly radical and nebulous concept. This indirectly enabled some of the most antisocial people in our society, such as narcissists, sexual predators, and public fetishists - not to even mention the exploiters of vulnerable young people.
The medical industry, smelling the multi-billion dollar blood in the water with this new social shift, was quick to hop on board, promoting gender ideology and setting up pathways to start raking in cash hand over fist.
Transsexualism as it was always known was completely hijacked; applauded on by Liberal "allies" who did not want to be seen as anything other than a winner in the progressive Olympics, and who now refuse to admit they were wrong in allowing our existence to be exploited for these ends.
These groups and individuals will double and triple down as the pendulum continues to swing back, unable to admit fault, only accelerating the inevitable. Blissfully ignorant to the damage they have caused to us, and society more broadly. And as they walk away from their fictional identities and virtue signaling allyship, and onto the next trendy thing in coming years, transsexuals and LGBs will be left to pick up the pieces.
Somehow I manage to live a very happy gay life despite not having any woke progressive friends. Everyone I know is sick of Pride, yet they all treat me like I'm, well, normal. And, admittedly I am biased, but I know some of the best people in the world, so I'm very grateful.
I do realize that a big part of the reason we got to a place where someone like me is accepted like I am is because of activists who came before me. I try to always give credit where credit is due and give thanks to the good things earned for me by others. But I also believe very strongly that the activists who won this life for me were the ones who pushed a message of inclusion and integration. "We're just like you," was successful because people saw that, in many cases, that was true.
But anti-assimilationist queer activists have decided to go scorched earth by deeming everything "normative," as oppressive. If they admit how good things got, they wouldn't be able to play the victim anymore, and having a victim narrative confers a lot of power in society today. Ironically, there's a risk of them pushing the victim narrative so far and using it to push so many boundaries that it actually becomes reality again. Boy who cried wolf, anyone?
Anyway, I'm glad to have grown up when I did and sad to see the movement take a nosedive. We actually have it really good, and the only people putting that in jeopardy are those who forgot the goal was to be treated like everyone else, not better than everyone else.
Hi, I've been gone. Can anybody tell me what the next thing armchair activists are grabbing onto now that Gaza is flattened and the gender shit is being closed in on?
@anomalysheep Good call. I've been gone for a few months now, isn't worth the mental energy. Let the cards fall where they may. We will be here to pick up the pieces later.