we're still at early days when many young people fed into the sausage machine of transition still haven't undergone full processing to be transitioned individuals who have had time, including more maturity, to reflect on where they've got to, and then found the courage to discuss this openly.
Exactly. This will become an increasing issue. All those mocking and tearing Charlie and co apart, Michelle Moore, James Caspian etc will see more and more young people speaking up and out. Who will represent them?
There will probably always be (real) trans people (unless we descend into an apocalyptical world) and that's fine, but there's so many confused misconceptions around right now that stonewall et al are promoting that actually do harm.
Was just reading a new scientist piece on how individual thought is rare and near impossible now:
*Our culture and the habits of our society are social contracts, and both depend primarily upon social learning. As a result, most of our public beliefs and habits are learned by observing the attitudes, actions and outcomes of peers, rather than by logic or argument.
Learning and reinforcing this social contract is what enables a group of people to coordinate their actions effectively.
Social fabric
It is time that we dropped the fiction of individuals as the unit of rationality, and recognised that our rationality is largely determined by the surrounding social fabric. Instead of being actors in markets, we are collaborators in determining the public good. Indeed, our research has demonstrated that people are much more influenced by their social networks than by individual incentives.*
The death of individuality by Alex Pentland (appears to have researched social media phenomena)
Basically, as we know, Stonewall aren't bloody helping with shit like this.