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10 days agoWhat’s crazy about it is literally nobody’s pressured to become trans, like, at all. Nobody wishes anyone to be trans because gender disphoria sucks.
It’s literally just “feel free to express your gender however the fuck you want, you do you, and we’ll still respect you as-is”.
Despite that, I never once thought about transitioning or being trans or fantasizing about growing a pair of boobs. As a cis man, looking like a women would just make me feel disphoric and want to be a man again ASAP. I never once felt pressured to transition either, and I hang out with a lot of very fruity people.
This idea that it’s contagious and gives bad thoughts to people is just plain wrong, nobody becomes trans that weren’t trans already.
Unfortunately yes. And even then, just having friends is still a privacy liability. Early on the Facebook app for Android would straight up just upload your contacts without asking, so they knew about me well before I caved in and made an account. Or, I’d give my number to someone and suddenly Facebook knows and asks me to friend them.
Not that it’s a new threat: even pre-industrialization, you’d tell a friend a secret and before you knew it the whole village knew.
People are mostly incapable of caring for anyone’s privacy but themselves.