Is "body positivity" contributing to the trans trend? -

[Salubrious]

TL;DR - It's easier to scream at other people to "accept" you as you are then it is to make meaningful changes to yourself as a person.

 

[albert chan]

“Body positivity” is not a thing when you realize that alcohol and drug dependency does not care for inaccurate, or unrealistic, BMI.

 

[Miss Tommie Jayne Wasserberg]

Gender identity has multiple developmental theories and the most prominent one is a combination of nature and nurture, meaning influences in the environment play a huge factor. There are also three stages in which gender identity goes through before a child determines the identity, which primarily does fall Male or female. What you are saying is not what is being taught by academia. What you are stating is information from geneticists is incomplete. XX, XY, sometimes a mutation or a deletion. That's called a genetic disorder, not identity. No one disputes that neurological conditions that creates gender dysphoria exists. You are trying to tie your own compilation of ideas that are based on neither science, human development or psychology together with incomplete information and articles from poor sources. The cultural influence you state is part of nurture. There's countless evidence based studies that show gender identity typically falls within norms, meaning anything outside if it is abnormal. Unfortunately while genetics does acknowledge variations of the human genome those variations fall out of the norm. Still the genetic component is not how gender identity is formed. However, if you want support for your statement on genetic, the second phase of gender identity for children around age 4 is differentiating gender by means of genitalia, the normative being male/female.

lol. That's a lot of word salad full of opinions and unsupported statements of fact along with some sly ad hominem slurs tossed in. There is nothing "abnormal" about gender identities outside of "norms" . You were on the right track when you said "typically" cishet is the "typical" identity and orientation for the majority of live births. Others are perfectly natural "atypical" people. To say otherwise is just screaming that you're a male supremacist and probably a self loathing queer in denial.

In nature as I understand it, there are six basic karyotypes for sex and four basic gender identities. Everything else about sexuality and gender are cultural constructs.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

No wonder people feel disconnected from their bodies when they live in the social media simulacrum.

So in other words, real life getting "cancelled" by excessive tech - and now the "New Normal" - is egging on the "body positivity" and "transgender" movements?

 

[Kurze Katze]

body positivity should boil down to appreciating and taking care of your meat suit because its the only one you gonna get. the trans movement in inherently anti-body positivity due to their need to physically alter themselves to be happy.

 

[kuniqsX]

If you gave aspiring MtFs a choice between looking like a bodybuilder vs. like a drag queen, how many would choose the first despite talking beforehand about being a woman in a man's body?

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

it just felt extremely uncomfortable and almost borderline violating

Every kid getting cornered into that shit should have their Stranger Danger senses screaming at them. Yaniv isn't the first predator to use children's puberty as an excuse to advance on them; it's common. Shit, some Jehova's Witnesses going door-to-door tried that on me when I was an early-teenaged girl. Two crusty black men, middle of a (EDIT to specify it was summer) weekday afternoon, could tell very fucking quickly I was home alone and wasted no time pointing out that my body was changing a lot at my age and that they could "help" me to understand what's happening and won't I let them in the house for a little while to talk? Slammed the door, called the cops, called my dad, end of story. How many stories of young boys getting preyed on by men they knew involve the adults using 'puberty guidance' to groom them? Most of them, I think.

As for your thread's actual inquiry, my mind goes straight towards BoPo giving fat, lazy, hairy, ugly, etc men the excuse that if they troon out, anyone who doesn't call them a pretty little girl-slut isn't adhering to body positivity. After all, advising even an actual woman that maybe she could stand to wax her upper lip, pluck her eyebrows, lose some weight, shave her legs, take care of her skin/hair or dress appropriately for her bodytype and surroundings isn't BoPo and is therefor verboten. This taboo gives troons an insane amount of free reign. It also doesn't help that being obese causes the human body to appear far more gender-ambiguous as the forms of the skeletal and muscular frames get further obscured.

Apologies if I've posted any redundancies; I'm still groggy and am about to read the thread.