Something I want to share. Recently GC and "LGB" hate group members have been going on and on about a debunked theory about transgender identifying people being a social contagion. Thing is, we've always fucking been here. We just don't feel safe coming out to UNSAFE people. Reason there's so many of us coming out, is because of better medicine practices, surgical practices, and studies understanding us better.
Points of reference: NBC https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/social-contagion-isnt-causing-youths-transgender-study-finds-rcna41392
MIT https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/18/1057135/transgender-contagion-gender-dysphoria/ #LGBTQ
Some additional figures throughout history that were transgender. https://students673.ucr.edu/docsserver/lgbt/trans_timeline.pdf
@PaganMother There was a Frenchman in the 1700s that spied as a woman, and fought in the military as a man. Though her skeleton shows she was AMAB, she prefered to identify as a woman.
She got away with this because she was both effective and a noble person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevalier_d'%C3%89on
Any minority subculture of identiy, Transgender, Otherkin, etc...
This is the first time in history where we can be open en masse without being massacred.
@PaganMother That's not to say it isn't dicey. My family is so worried about me being hate crimed we turned it into a verb.
There are people coming out of the wood work trying to slander us as groomers, weaponizing people again us.
But for the first time we have support, we have a voice thanks to the net and allies, we have medical options to live more fully our truth.
It is far better to live the life you want than the lie they give you!
@NiveusLepus Yep, I have a few friends in the furry and scaley community that are fearful of hate crimes happening to them as well. We've been speaking in support of one another for quite some time now. The outliers that claim to be part of the furry community usually find their way kicked out of the community for harming children, and worse.
@PaganMother There are still a lot of good furs out there. I have a lot of friends in the Furry community that I count as solid otherkin allies, and LGBT Allies.
When anything gets big though, fringe elements can seemingly gain a larger hold, but if you look at it by capita, they are still firmly the minority.
This is one of the reasons I've just decided to table flip and be open about everything.
For one, it's who I am, so why should I hide it. If I don't show my real self, how can anyone really love me?
That whole, far better to live the life you want line I like so much
Beyond that, we can be lighthouses for each other. There's someone out there struggling, and they haven't gotten to a place where they're ready to be open yet, but if I show up, they can get a lil closer to peace.
@PaganMother We have always been here.
We will always be here.
We will outlive their hate and watch as they choke on it as they fade into dust.
@LnzyHou Of course, the way to break from bias and misinformation, is to open the mind in learning. :)
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@PaganMother Not so different a past for other gay people. I grew up in a world where you both hid & were ashamed of what I heard referred to at an early age as 'natures cruel joke'. I hid my truth from the world & also from myself. I'm glad things have changed for so many I hope to yet see them change for many more. History shows as long as there were people, we always had many types of 'differently normal' ones too. 'We are family' really should be all humans not just the gay community.
@Lucky188 On that I absolutely agree. I do wish to see a more accepting society come into being, but we're under threat by our government, by special interests such as christian groups across the globe. I mean, think of it this way, in a spoonful of sugar, we're a single granular in population size compared to the rest of the world.
@PaganMother I see the threat as well and worry that the future generations wont enjoy the progress so many paid so much for. Its on us though to meet that force with an opposite force, we have done it before we will do it again if we needed.
(Remember stonewall)
It takes great strength to be in a world that opposes us, they under estimate how strong that made us.
Personal note: Change is scary, but these hate groups take it to a whole new level of absurdity. You can't freeze time a child or an adult, STOP TRYING TO!