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This is utterly unsurprising. People want to belong more than they want to be right. People want to belong more than they want to be safe. People want to belong more than they want nice things, or sex, or space, or sanity, or health. Frankly the surprising part is that one member refused the feat of cognitive sodomy.
And I think trans is similar- like it or not, trans are provided belonging in a world that’s bereft of it. It’s the same thing behind munchausen or anorexia; you now belong to a community of other practitioners by virtue of doing something crazy and stupid, United against the rest of the world which can never do enough to cater to you and yours. Yes, trans is getting supported by big institutions that never supported anorexia or munchausens, but I think that’s tribal dynamics driven by polarization- remember that ‘people want to belong’ thing again? And as the US white population undergoes ethnogenesis where the blue and red tribes live in different worlds, I think you’re going to see more stupidity and craziness get declared sacrosanct because the wrong tribe opposed it, so you can declare yourself closer to the core of your tribe by declaring your support, damn the consequences.
Now obviously we should get people back to family, church, neighborhood associations, local sports leagues, etc. But those mostly aren’t coming back. We’re stuck with a cycle of pillarizarion into obvious craziness. Trans is the first expression(well, that hit the mainstream), it won’t be the last. And that’s a damn shame.
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