Very liberal communities in very liberal cities, definitely.
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I've been in dance communities, so the places I'm thinking of comes from there - dance community in San Francisco and Boston are extremely, extremely pro-trans.
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No, but it doesn't have to be all-encompassing to be significant. Church, for example, plays a huge and defining part in people's lives, without it also being the place where people shop, and you see lots of the radical religious motivated by simply that.
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Trans people have a lower rate of victims of homicide than cis people, to be clear.
But besides that yea I agree with you, I think this motivation doesn't hold for the majority of trans people. I was just wondering about the minority of cases.
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Well I was asking because I was reading accounts online of ex-trans people saying this is exactly why they transitioned, so I think it does make sense for at least some people, even if there's not that many.
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Sure, I'm down for that frame. I guess I could rephrase my og question then as "I wonder how many current trans people aren't actually trans, but think they are because of the social incentives to be trans"
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I think in most areas of the world, there's strong negative reactions to trans people.
But claiming it's all 100% everywhere seems like it's invalidating the experience of this person:
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