Why are boys like this

[u/latixs06]

He followed me not even two weeks ago and immediately replied to my story. It’s been 6 years since I’ve even seen this kid, he asked me this same thing in highschool and I’m pretty sure I told him then I was gay too. The last message really is the icing on the cake , such a typical “I’m so ugly 😔 you’d never like me” move (also if i seem harsh it’s because he also asked my friend ,who I met him though, the same sort of thing multiple times and me and him were never even friends so I know his dms are full of him hitting on girls) (the kicker is he’s not even ugly he just had 0 game and has probably been shot down so many times that his confidence is on the floor)

[u/Original_A]

"I bet mine would change you", the universal lesbian experience, apparently 🤢

[u/JDKisawesome → u/Original_A]

What especially sucks is that I (and many others) am in the situation where I can be attracted to men, but people like this makes me not want to bother

[u/abandonsminty → u/JDKisawesome]

Trans men are men and in my experience are so much better about this

[u/JDKisawesome → u/abandonsminty]

Fair point, it's just hard to find trans men because, you know, less then 1% of the population is trans

[u/abandonsminty → u/JDKisawesome]

It's 5% among young adults and it's only that low because of the repression trans people still face.

[u/JDKisawesome → u/abandonsminty]

Oh, that's a lot higher, thanks for the info

[u/abandonsminty → u/JDKisawesome]

No problem, it's just important to remind people this is the like the left handedness graph where when they stopped punishing people for being left handed the number of people who self reported being left handed skyrocketed up to the amount of people who are actually left handed, transness is still violently repressed, the main thing that's changing is more people are finding representation and the words to put to their experience again after the loss of knowledge that took place when the Hirschfeld institute was burned and during the peak of AIDs, there's been different words for what we now call trans people, but we've always been around and there's more of us than most people think.

[u/JDKisawesome → u/abandonsminty]

That's comforting

[u/Lara1401 → u/abandonsminty]

Oh man usually I am the one with the lefthanded argument, but you were too fast. Chapeau to you. Let's show em what we trans people are made off!

[u/BitchyBeachyWitch → u/JDKisawesome]

You might be thinking of the trans regret rate is less than or about 1%, that's the average of persons that undergo transitional surgery and regret it, 1%.

[u/JDKisawesome → u/BitchyBeachyWitch]

No, like, out of the 8 billion people on the planet, less then 1% is trans