I know it's actually a very toxic and damaging narrative but the mental images I have built up around the false idea of trans people seeking out cishets to befriend and "corrupt" them tends to amuse me.
Inviting them over to watch a movie but it's just two hours of sissy hypno.
Offering them some candy with estradiol secretly mixed in.
"Oops, sorry I spilled all over your clothes, but while it gets washed here's a cute little outfit I have lying around that's coincidentally your size!"
Imagine the level of gas lighting it would take to actually convince a cis person to transition. You'd need to have a cave allegory level of control over their world to have a chance of succeeding.
Luckily most outwardly cishet people have pre-built their own cave around them. Except Derek, who lives his life inhaling the raw pure light of reality. Impressive.
Yeah, look at how much trans people are gaslit into being cis, how much effort and ideological domination that takes, and it still doesn't work reliably to keep our eggs from cracking. Imagine trying to do that thing not as an entire society backed up with decades of transphobic propaganda and medical gatekeeping, but as a single catgirl trying against all odds to convince a guy who does not even feel constant alienation from masculinity and his body and who doesn't get gender euphoria from girl stuff, who lacks all the driving forces that help us push through, to go through the entire mess that is early transition.
I know it's actually a very toxic and damaging narrative but the mental images I have built up around the false idea of trans people seeking out cishets to befriend and "corrupt" them tends to amuse me.
Inviting them over to watch a movie but it's just two hours of sissy hypno.
Offering them some candy with estradiol secretly mixed in.
"Oops, sorry I spilled all over your clothes, but while it gets washed here's a cute little outfit I have lying around that's coincidentally your size!"
Imagine the level of gas lighting it would take to actually convince a cis person to transition. You'd need to have a cave allegory level of control over their world to have a chance of succeeding.
Luckily most outwardly cishet people have pre-built their own cave around them. Except Derek, who lives his life inhaling the raw pure light of reality. Impressive.
Yeah, look at how much trans people are gaslit into being cis, how much effort and ideological domination that takes, and it still doesn't work reliably to keep our eggs from cracking. Imagine trying to do that thing not as an entire society backed up with decades of transphobic propaganda and medical gatekeeping, but as a single catgirl trying against all odds to convince a guy who does not even feel constant alienation from masculinity and his body and who doesn't get gender euphoria from girl stuff, who lacks all the driving forces that help us push through, to go through the entire mess that is early transition.