'Going trans' seems like a craze. But it's instituted + pushed by *adults.*
Many in the comments call it a cult - for good reason. Cults seek to generate distrust in family, and ultimately, separation. That gives the 'cult priests' satisfaction, a sense of superiority, and greater control over the cult members.
'Going trans' seems like a craze. But it's instituted + pushed by *adults.*
Many in the comments call it a cult - for good reason. Cults seek to generate distrust in family, and ultimately, separation. That gives the 'cult priests' satisfaction, a sense of superiority, and greater control over the cult members.
I suspect that for the TRAs, many of them experienced (or at least believe they experienced) bad family situations. So they believe their personal situation is universal. They conclude the problem is with "family." So they have contempt for that and want to smash it and remake the world in their own image. Everyone needs to be like them, to think like them. This is the essence of cult behavior. ("My experience is the most important thing in the world!")
It's like a little kid playing with a doll: a bully comes up and rips the head off the doll. The kid cries, then decides, to make themself feel better they're going to rip the heads off the dolls of others. So everyone will be equally miserable.
That's always the temptation to the bullied individual: to become a narcissistic cry-bully themselves, exponentially furthering the damage done to them.
To me, they are recreating their own (real or imagined) trauma, rebellion, and blindness in others. And, of course, they mistake feelings for facts.
'Going trans' seems like a craze. But it's instituted + pushed by *adults.*
Many in the comments call it a cult - for good reason. Cults seek to generate distrust in family, and ultimately, separation. That gives the 'cult priests' satisfaction, a sense of superiority, and greater control over the cult members.
I suspect that for the TRAs, many of them experienced (or at least believe they experienced) bad family situations. So they believe their personal situation is universal. They conclude the problem is with "family." So they have contempt for that and want to smash it and remake the world in their own image. Everyone needs to be like them, to think like them. This is the essence of cult behavior. ("My experience is the most important thing in the world!")
It's like a little kid playing with a doll: a bully comes up and rips the head off the doll. The kid cries, then decides, to make themself feel better they're going to rip the heads off the dolls of others. So everyone will be equally miserable.
That's always the temptation to the bullied individual: to become a narcissistic cry-bully themselves, exponentially furthering the damage done to them.
To me, they are recreating their own (real or imagined) trauma, rebellion, and blindness in others. And, of course, they mistake feelings for facts.