Transgender a hot trend

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/09/13/transgender-a-hot-trend

Toronto Sun/By Mike Strobel, Toronto Sun 
First posted:  Sunday, September 13, 2015 08:14 PM EDT  | Updated:  Sunday, September 13, 2015 08:23 PM EDT

"Trans is all the rage. Get used to it. Look around. Genders are bending and lines are blurring all around you.

The Danish Girl, starring Eddie Redmayne as a guy who becomes a girl, premiered at TIFF on Saturday night.

So did About Ray, starring Elle Fanning as a girl who becomes a guy.

There is Oscar buzz around both films.

They're timely. given the hype over Caitlyn Jenner, nee Bruce. When a social issue goes Hollywood, you know it has ."

What a horrible article.

Like I did this to be trendy, of all things.  *le facepalm*

"All the cool kids are having sex changes now.  It's like totally hot." *le double facepalm*

Yeah, I had the same reaction.  Articles like that don't really help when many view it as a "lifestyle choice" already.


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Next hot trend: Left handedness.
And don't sell those elevator shoes! Being short is due for a comeback!

Not even gonna read it. When the "hot trend" wanes we'll still be here, tending to our knitting (or guitars, motorcycles, whatever.)

You all summed up my feelings on it pretty well. Between it being the "in" thing now and kids in school transitioning over the summer, I feel like there's a certain amount of...I don't know, invalidation? going on regarding what I'm going through, and what I've been through. It's one thing to transition when T hasn't hardly done anything to you, it's another when there's not really any fixing what got broke.

Dude, you're trans? Just be a chick, society's cool with it now! :/

Quote from: suzifrommd on September 14, 2015, 02:57:29 PM
Next hot trend: Left handedness.

Left handedness is a sinful lifestyle and the sinister shall be forcibly converted or shunned. 

Quote from: Jill F on September 14, 2015, 02:52:42 PM
What a horrible article.

Like I did this to be trendy, of all things.  *le facepalm*

"All the cool kids are having sex changes now.  It's like totally hot." *le double facepalm*

If you look at the larger picture its imo like this:
the last years sentiment has changed much. Its often like this, it takes time, but then people are more ready to accept it.
I would see it the other way around. Because people were ready, a person like Jenner was able to step in the limelight and was able to be more accepted.

And its good for many transgender people, imo especially young ones.
Instead of hiding their feelings like some did, more might be encouraged now to step forward.

hugs

I wish the Hippies would make their comeback. I like the music better.

I'm just waiting for Lawrence Welk to be the hot new trend, personally. 

I kinda regret that I came out when I did because of all the hype and media coverage that has exploded over the last year.  It makes me feel that people are scrutinizing my decision as something I'm doing just because it's popular now and that I may not be fully committed to it.  Like I'm weak-minded or something.  My dad actually called me weak-minded...

But, I stick to my guns now because I've wanted to be and be seen as a girl for decades.  To live life on the softer side so to speak.  My male life never felt like it fit right.  I'd pray to wake up as a girl the next morning when I was younger.  I was jealous, envious, depressed, and repressed.  When I came to the self-conclusion that there was nothing I could do about it, I moved on and lived the life I'd been pigeon-holed into.  I tried cross dressing, makeup, LARPing, the goth scene, etc..., and it helped, but it never felt like it was enough or that people were taking me seriously.  Who takes goth kids seriously after all!  LOL.  Fast-forward to this year, with the popularity of transness in the media, it allowed me to be offhandedly exposed to it, which immediately triggered these waves of memories and emotions.  I finally knew there WAS something I could do about it.

And so I move forward, not because it's trendy, but because it makes me happy to finally be doing what I should've done years ago.  Being trendy just made it more public, which helped me to finally put the pieces together.  So I'm thankful for the exposure as I'm sure there are thousands of others out there like me who will hopefully start putting the pieces together too.