3. What do you think of Transgender people?

What do you think of Transgender people?

When I was younger I had a friend who thought they were an elf. No joke. Or maybe identified as an elf? Anyway, they ended up in a community of people who broadly identify as "Otherkin".

I ended up going along with them to a convention in Kitchener, I think, in the early 2000s. Was a wild ride, met a lot of really interesting & amazing people who identified as as elves, vampires, nine-tailed foxes, dragons, one shoggoth, a naga, & so forth.

It was actually a lot of fun & they were very tolerant of me & my questions & I kept in contact with some people for quite a few years after. Good people, if a little quirky.

& I guess I have a similar feeling about transgender people as I do about people who identified as Otherkin. I think there's a lot going on there, probably a lot of people who are going through tough times or are going through that phase of maturation where it feels like no one gets you & there's something different about you & they find something that makes them feel special & when they adopt this identity it's a quick fix to their very human problems that we all experience.

I think the trans movement's gone off the rails a bit as I think you can agree that laws that allow you list "Dragon" as your race on your driver's license is a little much & schools teaching children that "human" is optional & kids need to discover what "race" they are & insist everyone call them by their new shoggoth pronouns which are unpronounceable by human tongues (I'm just having a bit of fun here) is...a lot, right?

I could go on, but I think you get the point. The furor over it is overblown, there are people who get caught up in the cultural wave that later regret their choices which weren't entirely free, & I genuinely believe we'll look back at this as something kind of silly & consider the medical treatments we're subjecting kids to as something similar to how pre-frontal lobotomies are considered today.

Most importantly, I think they're suffering & they deserve our compassion, but I don't think compassion looks like participating in their delusion.

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