Is social media driving unhappy teens into embracing gender dysphoria as the cause of their grief and transitioning as the only cure? Yes, according to one young feminist who recently detransisioned.
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“Like so many other trans teenagers, I first started courting my own trans identity because of two factors in my life: One, I had trans friends — two of them, both older than me, both female-to-male (FTM), like me, and two, I had a sharp increase in my social media use,” she revealed.
Dagny reveals how the internet not only fueled her dysphoria but that the only solution it had to offer was to transition.
“I, in essence, became a different person after I started using tumblr. It’s an unhealthy, upsetting, and toxic environment to even observe, let alone participate in, as a teenager.”
On social media, Dagny found herself caught in a serious level of “group think,” “moral policing” and “implicit threats of social exposure and ostracization.” She became withdrawn, anxious and paranoid. Indoctrinated by “Tumblr,” she thought her parents were bigots because they wouldn’t allow her to start hormone therapy. She also earmarked anyone who “misgendered” her was an enemy, and she hated anyone who called her “she.”
The universe became intolerant in total. There was no room for any contrary opinion. If you didn’t validate the group-think you were a hater. Inclusion demanded ideological lockstep.
“We’ve been absolutely inundated with one narrative, one option, one story, since this issue hit the mainstream,” she said.
“We’ve been given only one option, at the risk of unspeakable, devastating consequences: if a teen says she has gender dysphoria and wants to be a boy, then she should — must — be allowed to transition,” she continued.
“That’s the story we’ve been sold, and it’s the only story we’ve been sold. And detransitioners are an inconvenient contradiction to this story.”
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If you think this mentality is limited to the internet or Tumblr, you’d be wrong. The New Hampshire legislature pushed and passed a law that prohibits “professionals” from counseling anyone on transitioning back, including any type of conversion therapy. It is the force of law version of the Tumblr rules.
Dagny revealed that she still has gender dysphoria ― few days go by in which she doesn’t wish she was a man ― but that she feels much better than she did when she was 16. She no longer wishes to “transition,” and is distressed that other young people with gender dysphoria think they have no other choice.
“It’s time to change that,” she said.
“It’s time that we become aware of how much pain and negativity this narrative is causing,” she continued.
But if you are looking for reporting about this anywhere but on the right, you’ll be disappointed.
“We’ve unfortunately been profiled numerous times on far-right Christian journals, and not once, to date, on mainstream, leftist news media, which I find interesting, given the amount of coverage trans issues have received these last five years,” she said.
You won’t find any help in the Granite State. They’ve legislated that possibility out of existence. It is only a matter of time until the State’s Human Rights Commission or the governor’s council on diversity turns its progressive gaze upon any group or individual who dares suggest that transition is not the only option.
It will happen.
And don’t say you weren’t warned before we started down this path of intolerance meets state power.
