Will theyndo this for relifion too? I doubt it.

They’d absolutely do it for depictions of Islam or anything that isn’t evangelical Christianity.

I literally just started watching vids on YouTube and going along. Like, there really is such a huge wealth of info out there, it’s worth just finding a set of videos you like and sticking to it.

Having been a man at one point, I never once did it, nor been in a group chat where guys did it, but I’ve interacted with plenty of other men who have offered or done so.

It’s good that you’re not associating with shitty people, but just because you’ve never personally experienced it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

I think a huge factor in this is that outsiders never see all the inner thoughts and ruminating on it. I can’t tell you how many of my close friends/family say “This came out of nowhere/we saw no signs”, despite there being fairly obvious signs as young as 4, but also an insane amount of repression and masking of those feelings because I saw the attitude my parents had towards queer people, and literally calling my friends slurs behind their back for expressing even the slightest amount of femininity/queerness. Gee, I wonder why you never saw any signs?

They expect over the top displays of “transness” and when they don’t see it, they only see the “sudden” change, which usually isn’t even that sudden. I grew my hair out for years beforehand, had experimented with women’s clothes/fashion for a decade at least, and even had some friends who were very “in the know” on trans people who were not shocked in the slightest when I came out, because I was already not particularly masc presenting by the time I came out. The other friends just couldn’t see past the masc persona I had put on, so when that act finally dropped, it was some shocking and sudden revelation to them.

Because you can’t join.

Just take it absent mindedly, no biggie lol.

I mean, I still consider the period of “I recognize I’m not cis” to “being able to say out loud ‘I’m trans’” to be in my “egg phase”. Like, there was a pretty decent period where I recognized that I was doing not-cis things and was pretty involved in trans culture, but struggled to say “I’m trans”.

Except they never will be. Even as dark as things seem, the objective numbers and actions show that there are more good people out there than bad. They want you to think that isn’t the case so you give up.