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So what you’re saying is TikTok rediscovered LEET speak.
Found this under a video somebody linked to me and holy heck
this just in: fan of transphobe decides that website with large trans population is the root of all evil
Alternatively, hyper capitalist, hyper individualist Tumblr has fed off of a form of extreme isolation and desperation for belonging in millennial and genz teens that created microidentities, some of which, like “demisexual” literally originate from Tumblr and fandom space. Kids, desperate for belonging and individuality and an easy answer for all their ails, find microidentities and base their entire worldview around them.
This is how we get a medical disorder (classified in diagnostic statistical manual) which almost exclusively impacted a small fraction of a percent of young boys under the age of 4, expanded and redefined such that the number of individuals claiming trans identities has grown exponentially and has flipped demographics, now predominantly (self) reported by teenage girls.
Y'all can keep closing your eyes and blocking it out, but the reality is that Tumblr (and the internet) has played a massive role in the rise of dysphoria in teens, in the creation (and adoption) of microidentities, and in the rise in trans-identifying young people. They are all literally trends. The older users of the site can remember a time before transgender entered the public lexicon. Before the words demisexual and pansexual and agender and non-binary were used to define people at all, ever.
You may or may not remember ten or more years back. But from everything I’ve seen, these microidentities are exclusively making people less happy, not more. Be whoever you are. Embrace the vast diversity of human experience. Stop defining yourselves by it. You are so much more than a collection of gendered stereotypes.
inb4, “Fuck you, mom! This is who I am! You don’t understand me at all!”
I really do understand. And I care. But I’ve also seen the beginning of the trans trend. I’ve been dysphoric for years. None of this is making you happier. It doesn’t mean anything. Pronouns don’t change who you are or anything about you. Everyone is gender non-conforming. Everyone has a rich internal life. Just be yourself and stop stressing with shit that depends on other people validating your identity.
