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Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoJust knowing about 4chan and the kind of people that use the place, that seems like one of the most harmful places on the internet for trans people. It’s honestly shocking that there’s so much of a community there.
boobs_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Consider that people before transition are not necessarily any different from any other people. You can have very racist, transphobic, alt-right people secretly harboring trans feelings themselves. Sometimes people will turn to those spaces as a coping mechanism and then they become entrenched and invested in the communities. Just because they eventually finally accept their transness doesn’t mean they’re willing to let go of it entirely or the personality archetype they’ve developed as a part of it. If they leave it entirely just because they transitioned them maybe they don’t have another community they feel enough a part of to fall back on. Everyone needs and wants some sort of feeling of community even when it isn’t good for them. It can be very hard to break out of toxic spaces when it’s the only space you know and it’s practically defined you as a person, sometimes for most people’s adult lives