Around the time I started to identify as trans (15), I was just playing with the idea that maybe I’m actually a lesbian and not into men at all. Fast forward to me meeting a transboy that performed all these cult recruitment tactics within months (love bombing, isolation, etc)
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My gender non-conformance started to be understood as “transmasculinity”. I didn’t just like men’s hoodies & band t-shirts, I actually was a new gender entirely because Skylar Kergil on YouTube said dressing that way & liking girls made him realize he was a transman.
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My parents, ironically one conservative & one liberal, tried very hard to explain to me that what I felt I was care from nowhere. But how could it have come from nowhere when Chase Ross on YouTube said trans people have always known they were trans, just didn’t have the words?
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Gigi Gorgeous taught me that knowing I was always “different” was a good indicator I was trans. Other young girls didn’t get my obsession with video games, emo music and science. Not that it was their fault that they’re feminine, I was just the target for a lot of homophobia.
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Trans internet superstars rarely ever took homophobia into account. Or yknow, science. Laverne Cox has an identical twin, but if gender identity really isn’t chosen and is based in the brain, then why wouldn’t her twin also be trans?
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PRINCESSJOULES on YouTube cites issues with her homophobic (and subsequently transphobic) father as a prominent issue in her life. Stef Sanjati has openly discussed her eating disorders. Even Chase Ross has openly expressed his struggle with alcoholism & depression.
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I’ve noticed a trend in trans rock stars within the past months of them “coming clean” about how they really feel about their transition. Gigi Gorgeous said she never got a vaginoplasty. And is trying for a baby with her gf. And is sorry for “insinuating” she did.
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PRINCESSJOULES said she regretted her vaginoplasty. AND HADNT TAKEN HOROMONES FOR 2 YEARS. Then uploaded a video in which she took estrogen again - in front of her YouTube audience. These were the people that convinced me I had to be on hormones & get surgery in the first place!
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I remember I so desperately wanted my mom to watch “What does it mean to be transgender?” videos from these transcelebs, but she always said something about them made her uncomfortable. I didn’t listen though. If Skylar’s mom accepts him, why can’t mine?
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And thus began the vicious moment in which my peers across Tumblr & Twitter identified with these celebs’ rejection of gender norms & roles, accrediting them all to “having been born in the wrong body”. Completely ignorant of mental illness, trauma & homophobic family/peers.
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This media (paired with direct “help” from the aforementioned transboy) radically changed my already fragile self-perception. I literally woke up one day and said I was a transman. I literally ran away from my “transphobic” family for not affirming my peer-pressured delusion.
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My mother has been skeptic from a religious & conservative standpoint, and my father has always taken the “so what’s wrong with being a lesbian?” stance. I began my detransition and slowly began to explain to them the insane amount of brainwashing I underwent.
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They’ve been surprisingly sympathetic, but it’s only surprising because transcult told me they’d never understand. I shared with them an article
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Parents who are skeptical need a community to support each other. Transcult causes children to FLIP on their parents on a dime. Oh, mom doubts I’m a man suddenly? Time to never talk to her again!!! Transcult destroys families over issues that can be managed with time.
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For major media outlets to blatantly censor parents talking about the immense power these transcelebs & transition sharing on social media in general has on our youth is abhorrent. Talking about what’s happening will save so many people from making forever life-altering changes.
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Even though I was only on T for a year, my life & my body are forever changed. I wish I was given more time to just work this out without the pressure of the transcult. I wish I never had the opportunity to walk into an informed consent clinic right after turning 18.
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The parents who band together to discuss what is happening to their children have been crucial to me realizing what I went through, and I am so grateful for their words and their work!!!
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Bottom line is, even if media wants to censor us, we’re going to find a way to talk. This is far too important to let our youth get steamrolled by lies. Besides, ya can’t censor me on my own twitter about my own life.
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