I don’t like the term “peak trans”

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I mean I get it. But I think your term should be peak TRA.

“Peak- “ is, as I understand it, a reference to the term “ peak oil” with all the connotations of the amount of oil reducing down to nothing.

Which is not, I hope, the way anyone feels about trans people.

Just my take on things

I would like to thank the mn feminist board and Anne Ruzylo for peaking me.

I'm amazed people haven't heard of peak oil.

BUT the subject of the term is different. In peak oil, the subject is oil - it is oil use that peaks. In peak trans, the subject is actually 'I' as in 'I have reached...'

So, it's not about too many trans people at all. It is about the 'I' concerned having reached a point of 'peak awareness' of a certain type of personal-political doctrine.

Thanks pan. I think I see what you are saying.

"Peak" originally referred to oil, specifically (M. King) Hubbert's peak, who theorised that there would come a point in time when maximum rate of extraction for petroleum would be reached, which has huge implications for economics and civilisation which are dependent on fossil fuels.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil

It has come to be used colloquially as a tipping point when one has reached the limit of something, or something has become a parody of itself, such as peak Guardian for a story about hipsters making quinoa infused craft beer or somesuch.

No peak did not originally refer to oil.

Lottie I guess language changes...

Peak Whatever is used all the time. "Have we reached Peak Beard?" was I'm pretty sure a thread on here a while back... Something that is overexposed and thus starting to fall out of favour. So a reference to a bell curve. Given it's wide usage, it's not unreasonable for the OP to assume it refers to that and not some hillwalking analogy.

Yes, saturation.

So peak is synonymous with 'I'm so over...' etc.

Thanks Madonna

Yes a bell curve. Has a peak in it.

Well, exactly, it does. So now you know about the common contemporary 'peak' usage.

I had a similar problem when fellow environmentalists started using the term “climate change denier”. If you don’t know where the phrase has come from it sounds fine, but if you do know, you realise, it can damage your own cause.

I agree with Barrack in that peak trans refers to reaching the end of your capacity to accept trans ideology. This is not about having issues with individuals with gender dysphoria or those who are gender non conforming. It is about not being able to deny basic facts about sex and sexed bodies and clearly seeing sex and gender as completely different things (and gender being a load of damaging nonsense).

I guess the difference between us Ursula is that I am listening and learning.

I don't understand why you are shaking your head and asking people if they are thick.

Peak oil? Never heard of it.

Mountain peaks, concept of peaking - very clear, long-standing meanings.

I can't see any trolling. I like the idea of peak misogyny. That is what it is.

Did you ever notice how a graph looks like a mountain range?

Coincidence here or what?

The phrase "peak " stems from the phrase peak oil. Obviously peaks were around before peak oil (!), but that's where this construction comes from.

It's clearly an age think.

Good luck with your future.

Mermaid,
There are perhaps a million people in this country who have heard of peak oil and who read it as I do.

Those people might think that “peak trans” means something more negative than is intended.

Just saying...

Oh for goodness sake! Thank you QuentinSummers. I should have realised it was a transmaiden. 🙄

Quentin.

Bloody hell.

Yes

Coincidence.