>>112814759It's not that nobody can be convinced that being transgender is a thing. It's the opposite. Lots of people are convinced, and I suspect more people have been convinced they're transgender than there actually are people having dysphoria.
One of the big criteria often cited for knowing you have dysphoria is that you feel anxious, depressed, or hopeless somehow, and transitioning is being touted as a cure for those feelings.
But when you look at it, people who transition aren't statistically better off than people who don't. /pol/ fags like to throw meaningless stats at you, but the inverse to their "40%" faggotry is that 60% of people who transition are fine. Right or wrong they do okay afterward.
But that other 40% is a really major concern. There's the desire to blame society, but I think the case is actually that when a person decides they're transgender, there's a line drawn in the sand where you either have to accept that or be ejected from that person's life. This is where you go from depression to DANGEROUS depression, because now you've got somebody who's miserable and anxious and they've gotten rid of a lot of their closest friends and family ties. Even without suicide, isolation is a recipe for an early death.
But you see that suicide rate pre or post transition, right? Which means that for that 40% of people, it didn't help. THOSE people may well be experiences underlying problems unrelated to to gender, but they're being convinced gender is the main thing.
A character like Claire is really a poster child for the whole transgender thing. It's like a person who takes meds and has zero side effects. But what works for Claire doesn't actually work for a lot of people and I think it's irresponsible to ignore that reality or to try to shift the blame entirely to the social acceptance of transgender people.
