I have noticed that there are a ridiculous amount of accounts on Tumblr in radical feminist spaces that claim to be young detransitioners.
At first, I believed the accounts I saw. But as I observed more and more, I noticed a lot of strange and implausible stories. I know some trans people start E or T in their late teens, and surgery is possible, but the quantity of accounts claiming to have had top surgery at 16 or having had a friend have top surgery before 18 does not match with the numbers.
I’ve also noticed a sick eagerness to lie, and also to make fake accounts to send themselves disgusting things to react to.
I’m really concerned about this. There’s this strange ecosystem where teenage girls are interacting with bad actors, and I don’t think this radicalization pipeline is quite studied in the same way Gamergate was. The Rowling stuff is part of it, but it’s a lot more complicated. People need to start deradicalizing Gen Z/Alpha girls and women.
ah, it’s the other way around - being autistic is a common co-morbidity with being trans and they probable have shared genetic causes, so having one increases the likelihood of the other (because of genetics).
I actually went the other way around, I realized I was trans and when I ran across the genetic studies and the studies finding strong comorbidity, I started to take seriously the feedback I had been given my whole life that I could be autistic (which I had dismissed).