How many of you went to school with a “trans” kid? I’m near in my 40s and went to a high school that had nearly 3000 children attending and I never went to school with a trans kid. Did anyone over the age of 30 go to school with a “trans” kid?

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[–]Q-Continuum-kin 15 insightful - 8 fun15 insightful - 7 fun16 insightful - 8 fun -  (0 children)

Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.

[–]hfxB0oyADon't piss on my head & tell me it's raining. 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's not an epidemic of trans kids. It's an epidemic of mentally ill, attention-seeking moms, and dads too weak and cowed to put a stop to this bullshit.

[–]Alphix 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

THIS.

[–]HiddenFox 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Second

[–]turtlew0rk 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The motion passes.

[–]JulienMayfair 13 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I went to a large high school in the 1980s. I'd go so far as to say the whole concept didn't exist. Gay people, yes, but not trans. The word 'transgender' wasn't even in use yet. Graduated college in 1990 from a highly-ranked very liberal university, and I never heard the topic mentioned once during my college career, much less knew anyone. In the 1990s, I went to grad school and knew one trans person at that university, but that was it. I taught until 2010 and never had a single trans-identified student in any of my classes, and for several years, I taught 120 students per semester. With some rough math, I taught over 2,400 students.

All this exploded post-2010.

Transition used to be very rare because it was considered only if other treatments were unsuccessful, but now, in many places, even trying to treat gender dysphoria can be illegal.

[–]jet199 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I was a trans kid.

I had 3 kids who wanted to grow up to be the opposite sex in my class at school, 2 girls and one boy.

Luckily this was the 80s so we were all allowed to just grow up and be ourselves.

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

Mid 40’s here. Not one.

But there were a few kids who were attention seeking drama queens who were always trying to improve their social standing and who I could see trooning out under todays climate. Simply for the attention and social clout. Difference is, at some point reality probably smacked them in the face and they likely outgrew those behaviors as they got older.

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

There were a couple gay kids, and some butch girls and effeminate guys, but nobody was trying to "fix" them.

[–]jacques1102 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Every time someone brings up the "Trans kids have always existed"you should ask the question why was child suicide rates extremely low/rare back then compared to now.Were told that kids will die if they don't get "gender affirming care".If true where were all those kids committing suicide left and right back then in the news because they couldn't be see as whatever gender they identified with?Not to mention the drugs that weren't available back then.

[–]proc0 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I'm sympathetic towards people with mental struggles, but this is absolutely a social and even MENTAL contagion. Yes, I think this is literally a kind of mind virus, that may even CAUSE people to feel dysphoria (and therefore become trans). I'm not pulling this out of my ass, there is a lot evidence from historical social contagions to hypnotism and how the brain is VERY susceptible to suggestion and subliminal messaging. Kids are obviously more susceptible to this, and as any other virus would do, this mental virus will seek to replicate and will look for the path of least resistance.

And BTW, what is wrong with people in general that they glaze over this issue like fucking zombies? There is no such thing as "wrong" body... but there clearly is such a thing as wrong mind or wrong thoughts that don't reflect reality. We get the body we get, but our minds are malleable and incredibly unreliable on so many levels.

[–]JulienMayfair 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

See the witchcraft crazes of the 16th Century in Europe. People were able to believe nonsense to the extent that they tortured other people and burned them alive. In the modern world, we like to think we've gotten beyond that, but I'm not so sure. Gender is also a magical belief system wherein people are led to believe that individuals possess some sort of mystical gender essence.

[–]proc0 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Right, although I would say it's a reverse witchhunt. It would be like everyone siding with witches, and hunting down those that don't believe in magic.

[–]chadwickofwv 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Same thing, it's just psychopaths hunting down the nonbelievers. The only difference is the religion the hunters follow.

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

Mid 40s, I went to a girls secondary school and no-one was in anyway trans. A few of us were tomboyish in that we played and/or followed football or did martial arts and read comic/liked sci-fi. But not one girl thought thought they were supposed to be a boy. No trans girls in the boys school next-door either.

There was a pervert that we called transvestite who lived in our area. He stole women's clothes off his neighbour's washing lines, including some of my grandmother's. And liked to put on a wig, lipstick, an eye mask and nothing else and wank off in his front garden when primary school kids went past. As he did to me and my brother when we were kids one morning. Creepy fucker is no doubt fully under the trans umbrella now if he's still alive.

[–]chadwickofwv 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He wouldn't just be under their umbrella. That sounds like someone they would outright worship.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

To be fair, I didn't know even a fraction of the kids at my various schools, so I can't honestly say. But I probably knew, on a first name basis, more of the special ed kids than any kid who eventually transitioned.

[–]divingrightintowork 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I'm such a boomer and can't find out how to top level comment. Anyway, trans people have been living pretty open and out at places like Caltech, MIT, etc. And I know people who went there during that time, when I also knew trans people who are going there, somehow in the past 5 years, people I know who were there alongside out trans people, are now realizing that they're really trans, even though they're in there 30s, 40s, etc. They came Supportive families that really didn't give a fuck that they were polyamorous, gay, or whatever... But somehow it's only now that they realized that this was a thing they could do.

[–]IMissPorn 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

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

I'm such a boomer and can't find out how to top level comment.

Astroturf much?

[–]Brewdabier 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

69 M and we didn't even see a fag on school grounds.

Sorry fag is offensave to fags so forget I said fags.

[–]OuroborosTheory 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

"fag" is offensive and "queer" is mandatory, and "queer" is offensive and "fag" is mandatory

[–]Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So then queer und schwul.

[–]OuroborosTheory 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"gayjacent" and "straightjacent"

[–]Node 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sodomites are offensive.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

We didn't even have a single homo in my graduating class, and none of us have gone homo since.

[–]thomastheglassexpert 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The one and only one event comes to mind = 1974 I was in Cincinnati OH ghetto fuck mostly black junior high school that was back in the "bussing" days bringing white kids to ghetto and black kids to white neighborhoods. I have in mind a flaming hot girl I really liked and wow did she like the boys. One day at playground recess I told her I'm off to pee and she said "I'll join you" and at the standup pisser in the boys room I was a bit shocked/amazed she was standing right next to me, unzipped jeans, reached in to aim pussy and she pissed just like me. The shock I had was that I did not know girls could do that I thought they all had to go sit down and nope. But answering the real question here is "of course not" this entire "trans" movement only started up just a few years ago when adults commenced to encouraged and rewarded it.

[–]xoenix 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No. There were gays and goths.

I knew a at least two straight dudes who engaged in some cross dressing. One was in a rock band and sometimes wore dresses, and another one acted like an extroverted, raging flamer who carried a purse. But they both got laid quite a bit.

[–]chadwickofwv 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I had never even heard the word "transgender" until a couple years ago, and I'm over 40.

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

32 years old here

No, there weren't ANY trans children in any of the schools I was attending.

I've never encountered any homosexual children either, although they could had been in the closet and be openly homosexual outside of school only.

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

We had a few queers. Usually you just felt sorry and embarrased for them.

[–]slavdude0 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Eastern Europe. One lesbian in my class, one in another school.

No troons.

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

Mid 50s. Finished high school in '83. Never saw any such thing, nor in college or university either.

At the office in the mid-90s I had a co-worker who always wore mini skirts, very high heels and a suit jacket with just a bra underneath. Basically half naked, and that was considered OK. I mean, what the actual fuck, I'm trying to work here, not watch porn.

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

Mid 40s here. None growing up. A high school friend became a trans (he's a guy that likes to wear catsuits now apparently), but I haven't talked to him in many years. His catsuit obsession might have something to do with the subject matter of his books. He's a scifi author, and if I understand correctly there are trans characters in his writing, and they wear catsuits. He would also be mid 40's, married with a daughter. When I was briefly on Facebook I saw him claim his daughter was supportive (she's under 10 I think). He was always a fag (not in the homosexual sense, just annoyingly argumentative), and now he claims he's a lesbian. Surrounded by his echo chamber he's living the dream, I guess.

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

nope, never

[–]turtlew0rk 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I graduation it 2000 and including lowerclassmen we had a total of zero transjengas.

[–]OuroborosTheory 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

funny thing is they either 1. cite past people with dysphoria (also why nobody's supposed to mention genitalia or past names, but which is precisely the criterion that they EXclude because it's "truscum" to put any conditions on a category that's simultaneously rare and encompasses everybody) or 2. clearly just any woman wearing pants or with upper body strength (Joan of Arc)

just like how they claim "they/them" was "always used" because of one translation of Bisclavret, when nobody demanded it before Obama's second term

[–]dissidentrhetoric 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There was a few gays but that was it

[–]Adventurous_Ad6212 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My school technically had a trans person who would be over 30 now. They graduated a couple years ahead of me and I’m 29.

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

None in regular school, and I went to the type of high school that if there were some trans kids, they would absolutely go to in the 1990s.

There was one trans woman in college- nice enough, didn't even try to pass, just was doing their thing.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Early 20s and yes, one in high school.