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[Father Brown]

I'm vaguely familiar with AGP/HST theory (mostly because of this thread lol), I wonder if it doesn't start as a fetish and morph into an all consuming mental illness. Of course the root cause being a fetish it still manifests itself in obvious ways even at more advanced stages, but if it was simply a fetish wouldn't cutting your cock off seem a bridge too far?

This is correct in my view. It's not technically right to say that AGPs troon out as part of their fetish. Rather, the fetish progressively seeds the desire to be, or belief that one 'is' a woman.

Of course, the distinction can be a little academic sometimes, since their "authentic self" is generally the product of their sexual fantasies. You can see this in the tendency for troons to model themselves after the women they were sexually attracted to during their formative years, or in the tendency towards attempting to become 'pornified' stereotypes. Then there's the tendency to slip back into fetish territory, especially for things that aren't part of their everyday existence since these won't lose their erotic valence due to overexposure. The classic example of this is the strange period fetishism that some troons evince, e.g. the creepy probing questions, the carrying tampons etc. that they have no need for (just so they can "help").

They look like flat, hairy yams. How do breasts ever get this way?

A LOT of binding as @Squid Bitch said, but also testosterone seems to do something as well.

 

[Chongqing]

so do y'all know Sam Collins? I think she's the only trans person I've seen so far who my brain genuinely sees as male (she's FtM)

like, I'm trying to see a female in there.. but idk... sometimes I see something feminine in her face but I found this vid of her before transition and goddamn that's the most masculine girl I've seen? Like how tf did she have such a low voice before T?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pYXdUby86ys:50

Look at the lack of distance between the lips and the edge of the face. It's a dead giveaway every time.

 

[ThatDumbPhilosopher]

Not sure where this was originates from. I saw it on Twitter, where it was being criticized.
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I didn't knew Lovecraft was alive and now taking photos for his next piece of work.

 

[Spangled Drongo]

Why in hell, would you go through all this shit to be a man. Top surgeries, hormones, the whole nine yards why do all that and keep your period. I mean shit man, no woman likes her period! If you’re gonna tell me to give you a good reason to be a man this is it! This is the one thing!

Pregnancy, I mean sure at least you’re probably getting something good outta it, but periods are just your body throwing a shit fit and throwing out baby furniture cause fuck you for not getting pregnant.

You aren’t wrong at all, though it’s blatantly obvious their “gender dysphoria” is really just discomfort with stereotypes. “Cis” has come to mean “walking stereotype” to them, and with this crazy ideology going mainstream they become convinced that the only way to happiness is chopping their tits off and taking hormones. And as a consequence of this trend it’s easier than ever for them to find a doctor to enable their delusions and treat them.

Though deep down they still want kids and so keep their reproductive bits, there’s only so much one can do to fight biological urges. The period stuff very likely comes from the woke obsession with “body positivity” and even though they hate the so called TERFs for acknowledging biology and calling things as they are, they’re doing exactly the same shit with this TMI glorifying of their lady parts, just rebranding it as “trans/enby positive”.

 

[Dr. Troon Lagoon]

There's another dutch MTF I used to think passes well too, Loiza lamers, but this talk here is making me realise that that one also probably wouldn't stand up to scrutiny in less favourable lighting. This thread sure is educational.

This post is a bit old, but I found it on Susan's place. Whoever this doctor is, a to him for telling it how it is.

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Heck even people like Blair White and many of the other tranny youtubers. The level of care required to maintain their façade is very difficult to keep up and given we've seen how they keep masculinizing as they age that means you'll be into plastic surgery for life, which ages like milk and is a constant battle of attempting to tweak what they've already tweaked that starts to fall apart and most of them don't pass to begin with. They aren't going to be young and 'pretty' forever and eventually the maintenance will become too much alongside their desperate grasps at relevancy and youtube fame. Time is truly a trannies worst enemy and there's nothing they can do about it.

(...)

(...) Either way, unless they're extremely personable and don't make a huge deal of being a tranny (and pass reasonably well to where I could forget they're a man briefly) and make it obvious they're there solely for the hobby, I'm going to react to them differently than men.

Maybe it's because I've had some traumatic experiences (not due to trannies), but I do have a fear/disgust/no trust reaction to seeing what's an obvious man LARPing as a woman. Mainly because I know a lot of them are fetishists, but also, as we've all seen, it's not too hard for a male predator to claim they're a troon to access female spaces. And I'm sorry, because of what I've had to go through, I cannot lie to myself and say that the obvious man in front of me is a woman, and I should feel safe just because they say so. Some troons might fool me briefly, but once I realize it's a man, I will always view them as men. It's just a defense mechanism I have. I get therapy to try to help with my issues, but I can't get a cure for how I'm highly attuned to male features, nor the fact I feel highly unsafe with a man in women's spaces, especially because they can get there by stating "I'm a woman".

To end this sperg, there are some trannies that I would be polite enough to call female pronouns, if 1) they're HSTSs and pass reasonably well and 2) They realize they are not the same as real women, they will not actually become female, and know to be in women's spaces is a gift, and not a courtesy and 3) They are extremely personable and I genuinely like them. But if they pressed me on whether I saw them as an actual woman, I would tell them no. I view them as trans women, but not actual women. But there are only a handful of trannies I would extend this courtesy to, and none of them are ones I know in real life.

This is an interesting point and I suspect it’s because you are female. I wonder if women are better at spotting mtf and vice versa. It doesn’t really matter if a women is pretending to be a man - she’s no threat to me. I don’t want to fuck her and she isnt going to be a physical danger. Now a man pretending to be a woman, that’s a different thing entirely. (...)

Evening Shitbirds, long post ahead. P.S.: Could any of you DM me tips for good software to download Youtube videos? Ill gladly upload some vids)

So I had a look at Loiza Lamers and I must say that her results look rather good, especially when compared to other Early Onset Gender Dysphoria Males like Christine McConnel, who evoke immediate uncanny valley feelings for me.
Lamers has a textbook case history to herself, whereby they interviewed her in 2005 (Only Spanish Subtitles, soz) when she was 10 (DoB 1995) and got onto blockers and later HRT.
The video also shows that the parent were accepting, but not immediately completely affirming (e.g."They tried to get me pie while standing, but I wanted to sit down") From what I can glean, she is also androphilic, which is in line with the current etiology for EOGD.

She really does not look bad at all, but there definitely is trickery involved such as hiding the lack of hips by strategic use of fabric draped over the hipbones and posing of the hips and foto angles to invoke the illusion of wider hips than she actually has.

For comparison below a picture of her sitting revealing a rather rectangular pelvis and a decent washboard that make basement dwellers envious.

Spoiler: Interlude for some amusement: the virgin AGP vs the chad HSTS

Found this randomnly and it was so comically fitting to our discussions here, that I had to share it. Yes, this is Jenner on a night out with Lamers.

I also found a 2017 Interview of Lamers after she had recuperated from a stroke due do a blotclot, which is rather interesting given the fact that recent research revealed that Transwomen suffer from a cumulative risk of bloodclots the longer they take Estrogen, that ends up being higher than actual women. (Likewise Transmen get a higher risk of Heartdisease the longer they take Testosterone). Personally I found it more alarming that the neurologists told her that they chalked it up to "bad luck", which just shows how healthcare does fail transgender individuals.

Lamers also had a shoot with Transman Ben Melzer (German Kiwis will prob know more)

A man and a women, looks allright, no? Again, trickery was involved...

Suddenly Lamers is taller than Melzer and the headproportions also suddenly seem inverted. Btw, brilliant picture, you can almost directly compare!
Addendum: Notice the scarring on Ben's left underarm, very likely a phalloplasty.

As for aging like milk: I found some snippets about Lamers getting hairplugs, she is 26 now so time will tell how gracefully she ages.

Continuing with prominent EOGD Transgenders: swedish MtF Aleksa Lundberg featured in part 3 of the Trans Train documentary which aired recently, wherein she spoke rather candidly about the fact that she may have well not transitioned in hindsight and rather lived as a gay effeminate man. She mentions that she then went with because she thought it was the right thing to do and assumed at the time that this approach was properly evidence based. She has faced anger from Trans advocacy groups and even been kicked out of social media groups.
Despite everything I really do admire her principled stance and demeanor, and her musings for me atleast strike at core of what I believe a lot of youngsters to be: very gender non-conforming males/girls or "Turbo Homosexuals" due to varying virilisation, due to testosterone, of the brain during in utero gestation.

Back to the Lowlands: During a live debate on NPO1 (English subtitles), gendercritical woman Caroline Franssen debated troon Sophie Schers (Transgender Network Netherlands) which got rather heated, with Schers at one point exclaiming that she was going to file a police report against Franssen due to discrimination. Schers with a straight face exclaims at one point that she never "had the body of a man...", was born female and argues that sex is entirely culturally contstrued. For those who doubt me, she even has a blogpost where she repeats these stances.
Franssen meanwhile spews trigger after trigger by mentioning the crimes and rapes commited by Transgender Identified Males, autogynephilia and even mentions Rhys McKinnon in passing.

The interview however also demonstrates the complacency of the public, as they ask random people for their opinion, which mostly amounts to indifference/goodwill and not assuming the worst.

Spoiler: Schers Blogpost

It is not the first time that Dutch media have blundered in their reporting on transgender people. For example, in 2015 de Volkskrant went wrong with an article in Volkskrant Magazine in which the dehumanizing word 'conversion' was mentioned several times. The editor-in-chief's response to the subsequent fuss showed a profound lack of understanding . In 2017 , De Wereld Draait Door discussed Caitlyn Jenner's coming out without inviting a single transgender person to the table or respecting Caitlyn's current name and gender. And De Gelderlander reportedin the autumn of 2017, stigmatizing about trans woman Bianca, who was murdered in Arnhem while working as a sex worker. Better reporting on trans people starts with a better understanding of the terms gender, sex and gender.

GENDER, SEX OR GENDER?​

A person's gender generally refers to their gender identity and gender expression. That is the realization of your own masculinity or femininity (or the absence thereof) and how you express it in clothing and behavior. Gender itself, however, is a broad concept, and relates to everything from the identity and appearance of persons to behavior, objects, colors and all other things to which we attribute the trait male or female.
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SEX IS THE ASSIGNMENT OF MALE OR FEMALE GENDER TO BODY CHARACTERISTICS

Sekse wordt begrepen als de lichamelijke biologische kenmerken die een mens of dier mannelijk of vrouwelijk maken, van genen tot hormonen (en hun invloed op het lichaam) tot genitale kenmerken. Zo bekeken is sekse dus eigenlijk de toewijzing van mannelijk gender of vrouwelijk gender aan lichaamskenmerken van mensen en dieren. De biologie van voortplanting speelt hierin een grote rol.
Sex is often used as a synonym for sex, but in fact only refers to genital sex characteristics. They determine, for example, which gender will appear on your birth certificate. This means that intersex persons, whose genital characteristics cannot be clearly assigned to one sex, can have the gender registered on the birth certificate as 'cannot be determined ' . It still happens that doctors perform operations on intersex babies (who cannot consent to this) because of the need to assign a gender anyway. This makes it clear how far reaching the norm is to know and derive gender from physical characteristics. It is not without reason that the intersex movement in Europe sees this as genital mutilation .

CULTURALLY DETERMINED​

Views on gender, and thus on sex and gender, differ per culture and are therefore also changeable. In our current Western culture, the idea of gender and gender is limited to men and women. In parts of Asia, Africa, Oceania, and indigenous cultures of the Americas, gender was not limited to men and women. In South Asia, for example, the hijra is part of the local culture, in Samoa this applies to the Fa'afafine , and some indigenous peoples of North America even knew five genders.

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TRANS PEOPLE HAVE NOT OPTED FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF A SPECIFIC GENDER, OR FOR THE COERCIVE SOCIALIZATION AS A BOY OR GIRL

If the combination of your gender identity, gender expression and body characteristics does not fit within the prevailing cultural idea of gender and sex, you will automatically become an exception. Transgender people are such an exception. Their gender identity does not match the gender assigned to them at birth. But it is good to remember that transgender is a concept and is not seen as an identity for granted. Trans people in the Netherlands also identify themselves with other terms, such as person with a trans history, transsexual, genderqueer, agender or non-binary.

A CISGENDER LENS​

Trans people are generally viewed through a cisgender lens in the media. Cisgender people have a gender identity that matches the gender identification assigned at birth based on their genital characteristics. That lens makes journalists see trans people as people 'who were once cisgender', hence the focus on the transition and unfortunate phrases like: 'She used to be a man' and 'He was born a woman'.
The media overlooks the fact that trans people have not chosen to be assigned a specific gender, nor for the almost imperative socialization of children such as boys and girls. Small children have an idea of what a boy or girl should look and behave before they can write and judge each other accordingly. In doing so, they actually hold up a mirror to society.
Trans people also hold a mirror up to society in their own way. For example, they show that gender identity and thus gender is not a matter of body characteristics. There are transgender people who experience that they were "born with the wrong body." It is an understandable explanation for cisgender people if you have undergone a medical transition, but it is by no means a universal experience among trans people. Their gender diversity actually shows that the body is not decisive for gender.
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INSTEAD OF QUESTIONING THE CULTURAL PHENOMENON OF GENDER, THE MEDIA PUTS TRANSGENDER PEOPLE UNDER A MAGNIFYING GLASS

The realization that sex and gender are effects of gender is unfortunately too often lacking in our society. Sex and gender are seen as something biological rather than mental, and therefore immutable. The media now realize that this is not always the case, but they only link this insight to the 'phenomenon' of transgender people instead of to the cultural phenomenon of gender. As a result, gender is hardly ever questioned, and instead transgender people are put under a magnifying glass.
The cisgender lens therefore overlooks the fact that things like the given birth name and old photos have a negative connotation for trans people. A charge that is further reinforced by the stigma of the exception, with all its consequences.

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GOOD REPORTING PUTS THE MAGNIFYING GLASS ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT CAUSE SOMEONE TO BE BLACKMAILED

Mentioning the given birth name of transgender people who are now known by their self-chosen name (be it formal or informal) is called deadnaming . Well-known poignant examples of this come from the American media, which refer to murdered trans persons in a manner that is not appropriate with the given birth name . Their identity was thus taken away after their death. This diminishing of identity also happens with living trans people, as happened last week to Nikkie de Jager.
Good reporting therefore does not put the magnifying glass on the transgender person and their transition, but on the circumstances that make someone have to come out or be blackmailed. For example, Matthijs van Nieuwkerk should not have asked his guests about their previous gender on January 15, but should have asked himself why he is so fascinated with it. For example, De Gelderlander should not have simply quoted Nikkie de Jager's former teacher who mentioned her deadname, but should have pointed out to him how dehumanizing that is. And so De Jager should never have felt compelled to come out, but the people who blackmailed her should have respected her private life.

The lovely lady and her disabled wife (Coincidence surely, but more cynical minds would assume a pattern...). I cannot find anything about her trooning out, but I expect that it was rather late.


@Otterly As a gay guy I can easily clock MtF, as they quickly look and sound to me like a dragperfomance of hetero males doing a Monthy Python/Little Britain Skit. FtM likes Melzer have given me more trouble on pictures, but in real life it also falls appart quickly, they perform like butch lesbians/ very effeminate men and their slim and short stature is often a dead give away. It often surprises me however how bad straight guys are at it. With FtM I assume it to be indifference and it being easier to virilize a body than feminize it. But with MtF they dont notice straight away and a good titjob sometimes keeps the ruse going for long enough.
But I know of no straigh guys in a relation with a MtF and Lamers and McConnel also appear to be single.

Then to end with a interactive element for you lot: Unfortunate looking or MtF?​

Was zapping at random, when I came across an episode of "My Lottery Dream Home" Season 4 Episode 6 Milk Money, where Fran from CT won the lottery with her wife.

Spoiler: Not so sure about Fran

Could not find clips of the episode, but Fran lumbers rather ungracefully through the episode and the first thing that came to her mind when they viewed a basement was "Perfect for a billiardtable!". Google alternative common searches also were "Is Fran a man?", so I am not the only one.

Interestingly in conjunction with Lamers: in CT another MtF also won the lottery, but was basically shunned/mobbed by everyone (rather sad) where he tried to live, that also died of a heart attack/pulmonary embolism (due to a blood clot )

 

[Sonya-chan]

Hey there smoothskin

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Guess where Google found this image

 

[Montalbane]

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The troons gushing over in the comments are the cherry on top.

 

[Chapstick4Lyfe]

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Troonoids love seeing themselves in Junji Ito comics. It's almost like they know they are walking horror shows. Which just makes all of their hugboxing and "felt cute" posting all the more baffling.

 

[Ruin]

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Guess where Google found this image

Ironically that character is a fashion model.

 

[Minister Burroughs]

Based OBGYN in r/mypartneristrans. [x]
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I desperately want to know what the 'even worse response' was. Probably something along the lines of: "if you can't handle the truth, get out of my practice!"
I have nothing but respect for doctors unwilling to bend from the ramrod positions of their three-inch-thick medical textbooks to cater to these loons. You're a man! That's important to know when filling out the prescriptions, dunce!

 

[Space Retard]

"Since I was blissfully unaware of all that stuff I was initially a little "meh" about stuff like the bathroom debate as I couldn't imagine the HSTS I had encountered really posing a threat to women"

Same. I was all like "you can pee with me!" when the bathroom bills started to come out a few years back. I never thought of trannies as a threat to women. I thought these poor, mentally-ill gay men in drag would get beaten up in the men's restroom. I felt sorry for them. I had NO idea.

They already have their own toilets anyway, I really don't see what the problem is.

 

[KiwiFarms Username 632879]

Tranny accidentally says the quiet part out loud

 

[Cuscuta]

Tranny accidentally says the quiet part out loud

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Certainly insane, but additional context would've been nice.

 

[DoorPost101]

Nigger, the doctor, and especially O&G, doesn't want to be responsible for the death or disfigurement of you or your "partner" and medical notes need to be brutally clear and concise to facillitate the maximum amount of information for the least amount of space. Yes, that includes the actual sex of you and your partner. Also, how the fuck is a MtF going to fucking conceive?

There was a news article about a transgender man who almost died because medical professionals *did* go by what was on the charts and what the patient self-reported. They assumed she was a man when really she was pregnant and misscarrying. The fetus died and she almost died herself.

Nurse mistakes pregnant transgender man as obese. Then, the man births a stillborn baby

"This is an example of what happens to transgender people interacting with the health care system," Dr. Daphna Stroumsa said.

www.usatoday.com

It's of dire importance that medical professionals have access to a patient's unaltered medical records and it shocks me that so many feel different.

 

[Oh piss off!]

It depends on what it is. I can’t imagine a troon getting into crochet because they think it’s sexual. On the other hand, if it’s related to appearance they’ll be all over it.

Let me introduce you to hideous, sinister UK troon Jane Fae, who often knits in meetings and in TV appearances.

https://youtu.be/C8oD7lMG4bY

Before they trooned out, Jane had rather more masculine interests:

https://conservapedia.com/John_Ozimek_(Jane_Samantha_Fae)

ETA: Blanchard actually identified this as part of the old AGP:

"Case studies of this MTF subgroup suggested that dressing in the female role (“cross dressing”) elicited sexual arousal because of this self imagery of femininity; that this self imagery may be linked to stereotyped feminine activities (such as knitting) and may be sexual arousing as a result; and that sexual activity (including masturbation and sexual intercourse) in this MTF subgroup is sexually satisfying (orgasmic) if it is associated with a self imagery of femininity."

A Further Assessment of Blanchard’s Typology of Homosexual Versus Non-Homosexual or Autogynephilic Gender Dysphoria

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Listen cis lesbians! A trans womans girldick is totally not the sameas these ugly icky cis penises! You have to believe this because ur limp dicked r/Al overlords always tell the truth.

https://archive.vn/MrMhg

I really, really wish that more cis sapphic women understood that a trans woman's genitalia is not basically cis man's.
And like I think it's very common misconception for cis women that this is the case.
And it's just not.
Like HRT changes your body is such radical and diverse ways that to compare cis men to trans women in this department is just bad. It's like comparing blueberries to potatoes. Cause our course of drugs and hormones that allow us to become more how we are cause intense body changes, everywhere.Not to mention surgeries that aren't full SRS.
And even if a trans woman isn't on HRT or had any surgery, there's also all the mental stuff. Cause for a large percentage of trans women our mental relationship with that part of our bodies is difficult and fraught at the best of time. Which of course changes how we engage sexually with it. And even for those trans women without that, it's still not fun to be basically understood anatomically as a cis-man.
We are women, even, without HRT and/or gender dysphoria and would like to be treated as such.
And for the artists out there who make erotic sapphic art which has trans women and cis women in sexual encounters, please I'm begging you for the love of Sappho to stop having so much P in V penetration. There is a time and place for that but if you think of a trans woman and a cis woman having sex and your first thought is P in V penetration please talk to some sapphic trans women about how we have sex with cis women or NB afab people. Cause I assure you that's not usually what happens.
Oh and for any cis women embarking on sexual relationships with trans women, please communicate with your partner/s on what she is most comfortable with or what she wants. All sex requires good communication and consent.

OP https://www.reddit.com/user/Fyrefox666 is a disgusting, fat furry blob.


The comments are insanity too:

My partner is trans fem. They’re most definitely not like a man. Feminine penises (using the clinical term for clarity) are very different from masc penises. Lovely, soft, and beautiful.
My partner does enjoy penetration very much, but I’m the top in our relationship. There are trans women who enjoy topping; some use a strap to do so.
Couples should definitely share their words before getting physically intimate. I have words I prefer for my body parts, and my partner has theirs.

the blowjob part wasn't offensive but this is very harsh language
also that's not the only way to do oral with a trans woman
and could be argued that it isn't a dick but whatever

Yeah, but the information just isn't out there. There aren't any studies, barely anyone looks into or talks about the actual differences in biology between trans women and cis men. There's no way easily available way for cis women to come across this information, it's something that will have to come with time as we become more accepted.

How many lesbians who aren't just there for watching the troon trainwreck are on Actuallesbians at this point??

The vast majority of people who comment on penis posts are other troons and their straight/bi female ass kissers. These idiots think they are talking to lesbians when in reality they are just talking to a troon echo chamber. The lesbians already left, got banned and or are just there to watch the freakshow.

 

[AMHOLIO]

Let me introduce you to hideous, sinister UK troon Jane Fae, who often knits in meetings and in TV appearances.

https://youtu.be/C8oD7lMG4bY

Before they trooned out, Jane had rather more masculine interests:

https://conservapedia.com/John_Ozimek_(Jane_Samantha_Fae)

Holy shit, that's the person who help halt IRL person fanfiction on fanfiction.net with "Girls (Scream) Aloud", a brutal rape and gorn filled fanfic of the girl group Girls Aloud. There was lawsuits and everything, it was madness.

 

[Dysnomia]

Not sure where this was originates from. I saw it on Twitter, where it was being criticized.
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I especially llke SHE THICC over on the far right with those wide child bearing hips You ain't never passing with dem hips unless you wear overly baggy jerseys for the rest of your life. And she probably does. Far left is standing like a model in a magazine and just looks like an ugly butch to me. The one in the middle doesn't even pass if I took my glasses off and rubbed sand in my eyes.

But the pregnant people/people have periods thing really annoys me. Because women have those things. No amount of cutting off body parts and growing facial hair with hormones is going is going to change what nature intended. All these "people with periods" look like they are in their 20s. To ruin your body so young is horrifying. Most of the poses here are still very feminine. You can't fool Mother Nature.

 

[squirreltail]

It's of dire importance that medical professionals have access to a patient's unaltered medical records and it shocks me that so many feel different.

From reading the article, they knew the patient was trans and ordered a pregnancy test.
But what I don't get with the MTFs having babies is: if you've got gender dysphoria, wouldn't having hetero sex (as a woman) kinda be triggering?
(And HAVING A BABY, the definitional female experience, surely if you're a DUDE you wouldn't want that? yet "Man Has Baby" is a thing, we're told).

 

[Troonwhisperer]

Truth. I (heterosexual man) encountered old school HSTS types in the club scene occasionally back in the day but otherwise knew nothing about trannies. I didn't know that AGP was a thing or even that there were MtFs who were interested in women until I started reading Kiwi Farms.

Since I was blissfully unaware of all that stuff I was initially a little "meh" about stuff like the bathroom debate as I couldn't imagine the HSTS I had encountered really posing a threat to women—the biggest "threat" I imagined them posing was passing enough to "trap" a man.

Boy was I in for a shock. I wonder how many people who casually support trans rights are like I was at that point. Obviously hardcore internet posting SJWs are another matter and there are a lot more AGPs prancing around today but still I suspect a lot of normies haven't totally connected the dots when it comes to troons.

A bit late, but I can totally relate to that. I (a homosexual man) was actually very pro-trans in the beginning (around 2014) because I imagined HSTS in my head when I heard trans and thought it's ridiculous that anybody could be afraid of them. But oh boy, was I wrong. Not only are most troons in the West AGPs (according to the sex researcher Rod Fleming the West is unique in that. In all other cultures HSTS are much more common), I've never thought that there exists a community that is so narcissistic, evil, aggressive, self-absorbed as troons. And what actually do troons contribute to society? Most of them don't contribute anything, because they're so obssessed with their appearance, yet they feel entitled to anything, even your sexual preferences and your children's identity.
My mother didn't understand how I got more hostile towards troons and said it's because I consume "right-wing" media... I don't and the fact she thinks this is because she has no fucking clue what's actually happening around her. But I do think that sooner or later almost everyone will reach peak troonerism. Especially since they're showing their cards now. At first it was "just don't be a dick. We know that troons aren't real women/men, but if they want to be called like this, then they should!" to "Gender IS a social construct. We've never said that sex is a spectrum, dummy. But it's rude to point out that troons are biological male/female" and finally "Sex is actually a social construct as well, retard!".

Just watch this video of Germaine Greer if you haven't already. In it Greer is the evil transphobe and the reporter (quite calmly) tries to convince Greer that it's rude to point out that troons aren't actual women. But do you notice something? The interwiever never claimed ONCE that troons are actual women, but that society should respect their identity. This was in 2015, in 2021 even saying something like what the interviewer (who was pro-trans) would be considered to be transphobic. The only assuring thing about the video is the like/dislike-ratio.