RE: Looking back over the past 2 years, how has the sentiment of the general public where you live (excluding politicians) changed regarding transgender issues?

( cranberrysalad )
Already left a comment but want to add that I wonder if the quieting down is an effect of coming within a year of a president election in the US. This is a very divisive issue and it’s so crazy that it alienates a lot of people versus rallying a core base that would never vote the other way anyhow. Maybe that’s why it’s quiet.

Also, I do think there’s a small tidal shift against it but it’s not pro woman. More like “I won’t give my son hormones” or “get these perverts out of the bathrooms of my women/children” but not “women deserve respect!” because politically the people that say that in the US vote for the most infantile repressive policies toward women imaginable.

Trans days of visibility really help the peakening, because so many normies think of trans women as like Felicity Huffman in Transamerica, not the 300 lb furry with a beard and cat ears using the girls restroom in the children’s section of a public library. The more that the full spectrum of “trans” is introduced, from HSTS to spicy straights to AGP to heterosexual non brainaries to the bully kid whose mom tells the administration they can’t expel him for threatening girls because he’s sPeCiAl, the better. Peak the hell out of people by sharing the non-LGB rainbow.

( GrendelsMother )
It used to be wildly pro-trans, hooray for puberty blockers, etc. Now, it is… quiet. Mostly. A few very transy trans people, a few handmaidens, a few virtue signaling men, but the people in between just seem… quiet. The general enthusiasm for cheerleading has faded.

( cranberrysalad )
That’s what’s I think, too. The vocal cheerleading has stopped. I think the tide is turning. People went out and met actual trans people and went what the fuck these people are perverts or crazy or both. I’m noticing big shifts.

( Porange )
I thought it was just my circles/feed! I am in the 30s age group and in alt circles which we're very libfems leftist TRA. Many of them are quiet. I suspect it's because some of them started having kids but even ones that are 30+ with no kids are more mum besides the scared rituals of saying "they". The 20s people are still captured and perform pronoun rituals religiously.