That's pretty rich, in the thread where I've been reviled as a bigot and a transphobe, and where I've been repeatedly mischaracterised as believing all sorts of stuff I've repeatedly said I don't believe.
If you don't believe all the transphobic conspiracy theories, why do you keep posting them? Why is everything you link to a transphobic conspiracy theory? Your protestations sound rather disingenuous in the face of the things you've actually said and referred to here.
Really, I'm going to do the classic "do your own research" thing here.
Classic woo tactic indeed.
Your "evidence" has relied exclusively and entirely on sources with profound, blatant, and not even remotely subtle anti-trans agendas. Every. Single. One. Some have been from far-left radical (pseudo-)feminists who preach about how transpeople
in total are evil agents of the patriarchy (if they're MtF), or delusional victims of the patriarchy (if they're FtM), and that transgenderism itself is a delusional mental illness at best; or are from Religious Right hate sites who preach that transgenderism is an attempt by the evil libruls to destroy good Christian families and values; or are from sensationalist sources that pander heavily to one of those groups. All of them have relied on unverifiable anecdotes, outdated and/or heavily manipulated statistics divorced of context, invective thinly disguised as "analysis", and so on. Classic woo techniques.
Not one source has come from a verifiable, peer-reviewed journal article, or reliable, fact-checking, mainstream news source (FOX News and the Daily Mail may be arguably mainstream, but they're not reliable nor do they engage in effective fact-checking). Meanwhile, every single refutation of your assertions
has come from verifiable, peer-reviewed journal articles, and reliable, fact-checking mainstream news sources.
What are we to take away from that, besides the fact that you're also an anti-trans crusader who believes in the conspiracy theories promulgated by your pet sources? If you lie down with dogs...
Still no shred of evidence that tomboys and effeminate boys are 'pushed' by the 'trans cult' to undergo reassignment surgery, I suppose?
Conspiracy theories aren't about evidence. They can, in fact, only exists in the
lack of evidence. Like any other faith-based system, they exist primarily as a psychological crutch, a convenient scapegoat for what the believer sees as personal or societal failings; and a way to feel more special, elite, knowledgeable, woke, etc than the general milieu. For some, it's also a way to put themselves in the role of prophet or messiah, to "open the eyes" of the masses and lift them from their ignorance.
It's also a way to deal with cultural changes and upheavals. People, as a rule, are neophobes, they dislike change, anything new and different and outside their experiences, especially change that challenges their deeply held beliefs and firmly-entrenched worldview. They see change as inherently bad, damaging, rather than natural growth and development, regardless of the nature of the change.
As a rule, the older one gets, the more conservative and fossilized one gets in one's worldview, and the more likely one is to react negatively to anything that challenges that worldview. That's why every generation complains about how the youth of the next generation are destroying society, how the next generation has rejected the values and social mores and niceties of their predecessors, and rejects the next generation's exploration of new worldviews and experiences as "fads" or "a phase", and works to suppress the new and different in the hopes that said youth will come to realize "the error of their ways" and embrace the values and worldviews of their elders.
