in my mind, there really is no way that being trans isnāt simply a social contagion. trans people are a small minority, only 1 percent of the population, right? so why, in my class of one hundred or so students, were there five of them, and why did they all come out in a domino line? First it was the older sister of a friend, then the friend herself ārealizedā she was trans (what are the odds of that? 1 in 200?) then her older sisterās best friend, who was the oldest and a sibling figure for our friend group came out, followed by two of the younger girls 'realizingā they were trans. we were a group of three girls, five tifs, and one boy. so what are the odds, right? that all of these girls who happened to be friends all came to the same conclusion after one came out? that they were all gnc, but seeing their friendās gnc older sister decide that she actually couldnāt do that and still be a woman, what are the odds that this was all just a natural occurrence, a coincidence, and not a huge medical trend that capitalizes off of misogyny? and, considering we were out in bumpkin town, and itās so hard for trans people to access 'affirmingā healthcare, how was it that one of those girls got put on testosterone on her sixteenth birthday, encouraging all of those other girls to push for the same? shout one-in-a-million odds all you want, but this isnāt a coincidence, itās an infection of the mind, and itās devastating.
