>>299314I self censor a lot because I'm a paranoid mf. But in this case I put "him" in quotations for dramatic emphasis, not out of some respectability politics. I quite literally never knew "him" because he only showed a shell of person.
>>275456Basically when I realized trans politics were predatory, if not outright predators. During the mid 2010's I saw "protect trans kids" slogans and stuff on tumblr, but it was mostly by teenagers and was confined to tumblr and never spread anywhere. It wasn't until the 2020's that I realized there were fucking 20 or 30 somethings saying this shit, both online and irl, both tims and tifs. There was something genuinely creepy about grown adults being obsessed over kids getting hrt. But I mostly kept it to myself, because at this point all creative fields were basically pozzed.
Despite this I still believed there were "good trans people" that kept to themselves and don't involve others in this. But those are the vast minority, and I learned the hard way that you never even talk about feelings of dysphoria unless you want to be love bombed into transitioning. And I learned that no matter their intentions, no one really transitions to "become the other sex", they transition to become trans.
