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Just getting people to openly admit to this would be a win. They will not admit to this. They will not admit that it was what the narrative used to be. They will not admit that it's not the current narrative now. I cannot imagine a Good and Righteous person even responding to the question, because the question is inherently 'problematic, racist, and transphobic'. Always remember to ask people if they think that trans folks have the brain of their self-identified gender, and if this can be validated using fMRI or whatever. Just ask. Record answers if you can. Share. We need to see what the mind virus is fever dreaming now.
I remember this too and it being one of the things that actually was a good swaying argument to me about someone using HRT to treat their dysmorphia. I used to listen to Loveline a lot and Dr Drew would talk with people who would say transgenderism is people being sickos and he would talk about how there were studies showing mri images of a patient's brain before and after hormone therapy and how the HRT would change the brain from showing abnormal function to normal function after they started taking the hormones. I think it being a medical condition garnered a lot of sympathy for transgender people that they still want to keep while also denying that it's a medical condition that requires treatment, while they get treated, and I think they lost a lot of sympathy from people that can remember the before times.
The thing is, I'm not even sure this is mainly a bad faith thing. I've encountered several times, when talking about neologisms with people, that they simply don't remember things but the present and that knowledge just becomes always. I remember when "binge-watching" became a popular term and I was talking with someone about how it's weird how the term suddenly came into existence along with the topic as if we hadn't said the word "marathoning" before to mean the same thing. They were the same age as me and had no idea that it was called marathoning and made me doubt myself. I had an almost identical conversation about the term "lowkey" with someone who said it had meant what it does now in the 90s because that's what it always meant.
I think about 1984 and "always being at war with Eurasia" and maybe about how you don't have to actually rewrite history because nobody bothers (or maybe can or cares) to remember it anyway.
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