In my opinion, as an old grey-haired dude, part of this movement should be folk realizing it's fine to be whatever you want to be. Be free, validate yourself; And realize nobody else's opinion matters in the slightest.
The internet is full of hateful garbage if you look for it. It is a skewed bias. For every 1 person spouting hate there are 100x or a 1000x or 10,000x more positive and supportive folk out there either not posting on social media or not seeing a post like this randomly popup in their feed. And so you don't see the positive vibe others have toward trans for the same reason as nobody ever gets pulled over by a cop for the cop to say "Hey, just pulled you over to comment on how well you are driving today"
The hardest thing is that, for some of us, we rarely – if ever-- hear those praises. Some of us lose our IRL support and have to go online to find any resemblance of friends or at least people to associate with.
In my opinion, as an old grey-haired dude, part of this movement should be folk realizing it's fine to be whatever you want to be. Be free, validate yourself; And realize nobody else's opinion matters in the slightest. The internet is full of hateful garbage if you look for it. It is a skewed bias. For every 1 person spouting hate there are 100x or a 1000x or 10,000x more positive and supportive folk out there either not posting on social media or not seeing a post like this randomly popup in their feed. And so you don't see the positive vibe others have toward trans for the same reason as nobody ever gets pulled over by a cop for the cop to say "Hey, just pulled you over to comment on how well you are driving today"
The hardest thing is that, for some of us, we rarely – if ever-- hear those praises. Some of us lose our IRL support and have to go online to find any resemblance of friends or at least people to associate with.