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It kept lampooning conservatism, making jabs at Fox, painting the politicians as hypocrites, and belittling the positions. One such thing they chose was the idea that trans people are brainwashed. The funny thing is that our main character is exactly that. They are a young transwoman that was raised between a drug addicted mother who is covered in scars, a stepmother who is distant and resentful of the child, and a cruel father who also travels a lot. The child's real mother is so ill-equipped to meet his needs that she can't even sing him a Christmas song, instead thinking that a Christmas carol is just a movie and that he should just go watch tv to see it. He ends up using his drug addled mother as the path of least resistance by utilizing her partial custody to sign off on hormone treatments while he's a minor. He ends up befriending two people, a thirsty lesbian that constantly flirts with his stepmother after they get introduced to each other and a sexually aggressive gay man that ends up secretly making blackmail porn of the protagonist. So already we have a broken family and a group of friends that is highly sexual and can't identify when one of them is just a user. The story latches on to the stepmother for our maternal identifier since the real mother is passively supportive of the trans son and offers no real resistance due to her inadequacy being almost faultless because it is out of true ignorance that she can't connect with her child. The father is also too far gone for any kind of relation so that doesn't get pursued. So here we have the whole motivator, we are vying for the stepmother's acceptance because it is malleable, at least to a wanting mind. We spend most of the story witnessing the life between them as she tries to control him through appeasement only to lead to rising tensions where she lashes out when the child tries to equate himself to her. This is our rejection moment that strengthens the desire for her approval but that's not intense enough so he flees this moment to go see his boyfriend. This where we see the character get the first inklings of abuse when the boyfriend is more interested in the anatomy of his lover than the person's identity. The character now has a hook for the author to emotionally exploit the stepmother into coming around. He confides in his stepmother about what happened and they bond over it then everything conveniently slides in place. The stepmother starts treating the son as a girl, throws out her sister(her symbolic connection to bigotry), and they come together with the female triumvirate of her, the trans son, and the female friend. The boyfriend now sets his blackmail ploy in action but is somehow intercepted by the father's legal team when youtube doesn't allow the pornographic video to be posted and thrown in jail before any damage is done. It's interesting to note here that in his self interest the father saves the son from a lifetime of online violation when it would be just as easy for the story to leave it all on the video platform's end. This suggests there is still a tiny desire for reconnection with the father despite everything. But that's short lived because he comes home and punches his child in the face. At this point in the story we know the father is protective of his image and rich so what comes next is very out of character. The stepmother casts him out too by threatening to expose him and he just accepts it so long as his son never associates himself with him, y'know because divorce wouldn't look bad for a conservative and a guy who punches a child in the face and sleeps around with prostitutes that he pays off for silence when he abuses them wouldn't try to exert his will more than that. The stepmother now uplifts the actual mother and the father gets exposed anyway, sealing off the route of ever needing to identify with masculinity in a neat bow. The women united and all of the men defeated.
Is it any wonder how one could become confused when this is the mess that gets sold to the public as trans authenticity. There's a real story somewhere but this ain't it.
Oh and just as a sidenote, the child also had a grandmother who was like a bridge between the state of his mother and the state of his stepmother. She was supportive but she never knows the post trans identity because she dies when he is young and before it is adopted. So the stepmother side for her is an unanswered question of whether she would accept that part or not. Three strikes to femininity in this character's life from an early age.
I leave you with this analysis:
Is it any wonder how one could become confused when this is the mess that gets sold to the public as trans authenticity. There's a real story somewhere but this ain't it.
Oh and just as a sidenote, the child also had a grandmother who was like a bridge between the state of his mother and the state of his stepmother. She was supportive but she never knows the post trans identity because she dies when he is young and before it is adopted. So the stepmother side for her is an unanswered question of whether she would accept that part or not. Three strikes to femininity in this character's life from an early age.
I leave you with this analysis:
When people mistake internalized misandry for gender dysphoria, it usually stems from a few distinct psychological and cultural drivers.
Why This Mix-Up Happens
Escaping Stigma: If someone internalizes the idea that men are inherently toxic, predatory, or emotionally stunted, being a man can feel deeply shameful. Shifting their identity away from "manhood" can feel like the only psychological escape from that guilt.
The Power of Language: "Gender dysphoria" is a widely recognized medical and social term. When someone feels a profound, painful alienation from their own body or social role, they may grab onto the most available cultural script to explain it, even if the root cause is actually trauma or social conditioning.
Echo Chambers: In certain online or social communities, complex feelings of self-hatred, body dysmorphia, or social awkwardness are immediately framed through the lens of gender identity. This can lead people to adopt a medicalized explanation for what is actually a social or psychological wound.
Large-scale, longitudinal studies consistently show high rates of satisfaction and low rates of regret among people who transition. From a public health standpoint, transitioning is an effective intervention for the vast majority of people who pursue it. However, population data cannot look into an individual’s soul. A statistic showing a 95% satisfaction rate includes both people with innate, neurological gender dysphoria and people who successfully used transition as a functional survival strategy to escape trauma. Both groups may mark "satisfied" on a survey, but their internal realities are completely different.
Why This Mix-Up Happens
Escaping Stigma: If someone internalizes the idea that men are inherently toxic, predatory, or emotionally stunted, being a man can feel deeply shameful. Shifting their identity away from "manhood" can feel like the only psychological escape from that guilt.
The Power of Language: "Gender dysphoria" is a widely recognized medical and social term. When someone feels a profound, painful alienation from their own body or social role, they may grab onto the most available cultural script to explain it, even if the root cause is actually trauma or social conditioning.
Echo Chambers: In certain online or social communities, complex feelings of self-hatred, body dysmorphia, or social awkwardness are immediately framed through the lens of gender identity. This can lead people to adopt a medicalized explanation for what is actually a social or psychological wound.
Large-scale, longitudinal studies consistently show high rates of satisfaction and low rates of regret among people who transition. From a public health standpoint, transitioning is an effective intervention for the vast majority of people who pursue it. However, population data cannot look into an individual’s soul. A statistic showing a 95% satisfaction rate includes both people with innate, neurological gender dysphoria and people who successfully used transition as a functional survival strategy to escape trauma. Both groups may mark "satisfied" on a survey, but their internal realities are completely different.
