Anybody else in their early to mid 20s here?

submitted by Mtd93 from self.GenderCritical

Hi all. I have been a long time lurker and I'm a first time poster.

I'm 24. I grew up surrounded by the small queer community in my town. However, over the years in watch in horror as one by one each of my peers fell into the trans cult and transitioned into something. I recently saw a post about how there arent many GNC women who dont say they are trans and it sparked me to make this topic.

Does anyone else remember the time before this? For me; It was around highschool and a little while after. I remember starting to see Trans stuff pop up around 2016 and it gained momentum since. Being so young most of my peers wanna take the 'woke' route. They all believe in crazy things or basically have decided anyone can be anything with no effort.

A man with a beard,hair chest and BO says hes a women? Hes a woman!!

No dysphoria? No problem! Etc.

My peers do not know about my GC status. I have dropped hints and asked what appears to be harmless questions to guage their reaction to some GC views, Never ends well. I feel alone and very surrounded by a LGBT community that is only full of T and LGB. I wish I could find a community of like minded queer women who still believe they are women. I dont know why so many women dont want to be women anymore.

I honestly feel like after having finally moved away from conservative parents I am able to fully embrace the LGB community. However, My generation is literally stuck in the middle of this whole trans and gender war going on. I feel like the LGB community i am coming home to is nothing but a shadow of what it once was.

Signed Lost and sad.

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[–]VioletRemi 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Genderqueer ideology is about removing GNC people, homosexual people and women rights. "You do not fit sexist role? Then play other sexist role and change your body to match. You must be put into one of few dozen boxes, you can't be outside of the box".

And please, do not use word "queer", it is so strongly and agressively used to erase lesbians in all media (always used "queer women" or "queer people" instead of "lesbians" in majority of news, shows, games, articles). And this word is still used as a slur in some places and is synonymous to "faggot".

[–]blahblahgcer 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I'm in my early 20s. All my college friends have become trans in the past year or so. Help lol

[–]BEB 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

But it's a trend, like anorexia, bulimia, tongue-piercing, Tide pod swallowing.

Already, the young are thinking this gender stuff is old news, so take heart -You'll go to your 20-year reunion and all these trans friends will be married with two kids driving the future equivalent of a Prius and discussing their 401Ks.

[–]blahblahgcer 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

They've all been on hormones and had surgeries so unfortunately it won't go away that easily.

[–]BEB 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

OMG - that is horrible!

I had read that some US universities are offering transitioning services, but I had no idea it was at the level you described. I am so sorry. So many women hate their bodies at that age, shame on Trans, Inc., for capitalizing on it. But then Trans, Inc. has no shame.

I went to a reunion a few years back and was shocked to see the trans flag all over campus, but I thought it was just kids being kids and they would grow out of it. I actually complained to the university administration about the pushing of transgender propaganda. But again, I assumed it was just a lifestyle-type fad and almost no kids were using hormones or having surgery.

Good on you for seeing through the madness!

[–]blahblahgcer 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, the last straw for me was someone getting put on estrogen after thinking they're trans for two weeks. At that point I couldn't do it anymore.

[–]BEB 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Someone on here who was a science teacher explained how bad additional estrogen was for males. This is just so crazy...

[–]BEB 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not, but I just saw a chart on Twitter that claimed that (IIRC) around 50% of women opposed to gender ideology are under 40 and a very sizeable % were in their 20s and younger. I have no idea if this is true, but back on r/GenderCritical I was shocked at how many of the posters were very young, like in their teens and early twenties.

So take heart - there are many young women like you out there!

Many women my age were inoculated against gendxr ideology by 2nd Wave feminism, (thanks to another SAIDIT poster for "inoculate" ), but you younger women are true explorers - coming to a GC position on your own despite being brainwashed by Queer Theory and Post-Modernism, etc., and for that I salute you.

This ideology can't stand - the backlash has begun, so just wait, you will soon find kindred spirits.

[–]Constantine 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm also 24 and totally feel you. This stuff was just not happening in the early oughts. We were finally getting somewhere with letting kids be kids, and not worrying about gender roles and sexuality, and then all of a sudden around 2014 the crazies came out of the woodwork, and here we are.

It's completely isolating, I know. Everyone it seems in our age group has fallen down the rabbit hole of gender ideology, and they're making irreversible medical decisions to go along with it. I wish I could say something, but I would lose all of my friends and no doubt my job if they knew I was gender critical.

Take heart, there are a lot of us out there. We're just in hiding.

[–]redditbegay 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm also 24 and totally feel you. This stuff was just not happening in the early oughts. We were finally getting somewhere with letting kids be kids, and not worrying about gender roles and sexuality, and then all of a sudden around 2014 the crazies came out of the woodwork, and here we are.

I think the lack of structure may have destroyed a lot of our youth.

[–]fuckupaddams 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Heya, you just commented on my post and I just responded. Yes, me! If you need an online peer to talk to let's PM sometime. I know I could use it haha. None of my irl friends would put up with any of the things I think about this. And they're getting pretty cringey anyway...

[–]RealWomenResist 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes. I'm 24, and in a liberal community in a pretty liberal city. I try to focus on actual liberal policies we agree on of course. I just fail to agree and change the subject when trans stuff comes up. I try to talk about my gender critical views as if they're just even FURTHER left than trans stuff -- which they kind of are. The young liberal space is just about one upping each other on radicalism and if you take that tone sometimes you can get away with saying things.

I do believe that down the line the damage and hypocrisy will reach a head and trans stuff will have to give way to a more gender critical approach, at least in the mainstream. Some people will always want their sex change, but at least it won't be 6 year olds that we're teaching about it at school.

Hang in there! Being young means we'll see the day!

[–]missdaisycan 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Clever young woman, you! Out "Left" the Left. Nice.

[–]worried19 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, I'm 25. I can't say I relate too much to what you're going through, but that's primarily because I've always been in conservative spaces, not liberal or gay ones. Gender identity politics hasn't intruded into my real life yet, but of course I've seen evidence of it all over the news and social media. It's alarming the number of GNC girls who are disavowing their biological sex. It makes me reluctant to ever try to meet other GNC women because I worry they wouldn't be calling themselves women for long.

I remember the time before all this. From my perspective, things started to get crazy right around 2015 and have been getting progressively worse ever since.

[–]redditbegay 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Theres been a niche internet theory that sometime around then, the timelines split, and now we (or another form of we) are in a different one, perhaps less crazy, time. I could almost believe it after all this.

[–]bradjohnsonishere2 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

24 y/o, GNC lesbian here. I feel the same way. I've tried very hard to understand TRA talking points and sympathize with the trans community and I largely do - I think adults with sex dysphoria should be able to medically transition and live in peace. But transing kids? "Women" with beards in the bathroom with me? Girldick?? (Barf.) Wearing a button down shirt and calling it euphoria? Celebration of surgeries to remove healthy body parts and organs with any discussion of the adverse health affects labeled transphobia? It's gone too far and become like some sort of bad SNL skit. (I actually recall there being an SNL skit about a male lesbian who had not transitioned or anything.)

I hear you about feeling alone in our age group. Glad I have this community to go to when I see something that peaks me again for the 1000th time. Solidarity, sister.