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Might. Sure. And how often does it actually happen?
Where we conveniently have no statistics or even informal obsevrations to back or contradtict your claims with.
Or the whole "trans" fad, the entire social contagion and online trend, just dies out altogether, and the violence and discrimination go away with it.
You don’t notice the common theme here?
One of the issues being raised in this thread is that white middle class trans activists are claiming to be at risk of violence and murder when the stats show the victims are overwhelmingly Black, Hispanic and Middle Eastern. I don’t think you can deny the latter?
And why would it die out? It might return to pre-2000s levels if the online trend goes down, but short of a global catastrophe I don’t see why people would stop wanting to transition. It might even increase in popularity with future improvements in biomedical technology.
The societies that are actually amenable to the "trans" fad are in the process of replacing their traditionally tolerant peoples with significantly more socially conservative newcomers. The welfare systems that currently enable people to ruin their bodies and be propped up regardless are on track to collapse sooner or later. The sheer ridiculousness of "trans" will eventually overcome the already weakening social stigma on noticing. It won't be all too long before the guy putting on a dress and demanding to be called a woman's name will be laughed out of the room again.
"Trans" can only survive as long as its practitioners are able to ensconce themselves in online echo bubbles where positive reinforcement is mandatory.
Ironically people from socially conservative cultures are the least able to tell that someone is trans. I’ve posted about this here before, some male posters even said they were called “miss” by Middle Eastern men just for having long hair. It’s going to be easier to pass even if acceptance is decreased. Not sure that’s worth the cost due to the added risk if they found out, but eh.
Good thing I wear jeans.
So how did trans people exist before the 90s? The few media portrayals weren’t exactly positive.
As a tiny fringe group in urban areas where eccentrics could network?
Ask instead how they existed before the 1900s.
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Bit of a wording quibble but I would count that as dying out; pre- and post-2000s transness seem like quite different phenomena with quite different motivations, even if they rhyme somewhat.
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