If you said some *specific phenomenon* could be attributed to social contagion then yes, you would be saying that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
If I said "People dyeing their hair bright colors is a result of social contagion among schoolchildren" then I would be saying people with brightly colored hair "were a contagion", by any reasonable understanding of that language
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
Which would be, in fact, a shitty thing to say But not nearly as consequential a thing to say as saying it about being trans, because hair color is much less central to identity than gender, and because there isn't already a deeply ingrained societal hatred of dyed hair
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
And a century's worth of western cultural and political narratives framing LGBTQ+ people as a societal illness or pestilence.
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Replying to @BlamKaboom @rozietoez and
What is the effective difference between saying trans people are contagion and people are becoming trans is a contagion? Both portray being trans as a sickness on society.
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Replying to @BlamKaboom @Neumie77 and
It literally is what it means, that's what makes it a "social" contagion There's no particles of RNA that constitute the "trans virus" living in your body that make people trans, it's saying you get influenced by other people to do a thing and then become an influencer
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
The basic definition of "social contagion" applied to transness is saying "trans people make people trans" The *implication* of the term is that this is a negative outcome to be avoided, and in practice this is obviously how Jesse uses it
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Jesse is absolutely not neutral about the concept of "groups of friends on Tumblr who all go on hormones at the same time", AT ALL
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