Yeah it happened to friends of mine, well I stopped being friends with them back then because I was a terrible person. I had lots of dumb transphobic explanations for why they “switched sides” but really looking back with what I know now. It’s as simple as, anyone who “wants” to be trans just is trans. If they have a lot of transphobic prejudice they may go forward to “prove” it’s a choice but they’ll learn quickly that it isn’t, once they’re hit with the euphoria, or the dysphoria, or both. That’s when it becomes apparent how little of a choice it is.

I have doubts of how possible it is to accidentally fake being trans. Back in my darker days when I hug out with terrible people (and also was one) I had friends who attempted to do just that to “infiltrate trans groups” and for almost every one of them it backfired and they ended up coming out as trans in one way or another.

So I think it’s more likely to fake being cis than to fake being trans.

I had that too, I also just didn’t know just how badly I wanted to be a girl until I met a really good friend who I learned was trans (and was also in the right state of mind not to immediately push her away), questioned my own gender, then experimented with she/her pronouns on myself and learned yup totally want to be a girl, really badly too. I also doubted myself a bit since I’d heard that you need dysphoria, but that didn’t last long because I realized my chest dysphoria very soon after that.

Congratulations, I hope you have a speedy recovery.

I don’t really like chocolate much. I’ll eat white chocolate, but milk chocolate and especially dark chocolate is kinda gross to me.

I don’t remember that being a thing ever. I remember at one point people would talk about chocolate being amazing but I never heard it being specific to girls. Actually my family used to make chocolate deserts a lot and I ended up getting very sick of it. I’ll eat white chocolate but if given the option between something that has dark or milk chocolate and something that doesn’t have chocolate I’ll choose the thing without chocolate.

I think it has been reclaimed by the community, though I’m doubtful that the old man with a MAGA hat who called me a dyke is aware of that or using it in that kind of way (yes he was literally wearing a MAGA hat).

Yup they’re your typical transphobic bigot who’s mad that someone actually stands up against them and won’t tolerate them. It’s important to challenge these types of people so that the mask can slip off and they reveal themselves for who they really are.

I agree, I’m sick of this too. These types of debates are shitty and trying to honor them or play along doesn’t do anyone any favors.

I have nothing against Transgenders

Yet you choose to use deliberately dehumanizing language to describe us… Interesting.

Remember kids, when people hate on Blahaj and other Trans safe spaces, there is always a deeper reason. It’s either lack of understanding of the trans experience, or outright bigotry and disdain for those who protect trans and queer people.

I wouldn’t describe it as authoritarian. That implies unjust use of authority. Their harshness towards transphobes is justified and necessary, because transphobes are an existential threat towards trans people, and queer people as a whole. It’s not authoritarian, it’s protective.