Comment by thin_carapace
9 days ago
my way of sitting this fence is that a very tiny fraction of transgender people do exist, but nowadays there are probably more people who simply think they are transgender, an effect spurred by the trajectory of western society (because westerners live disconnected from life therefore disconnected from themselves)
I would agree with you. I think people are searching for something and attempt to find it in all sorts of forms. The truth is, nothing was missing all-along it just takes some self-realization / actualization to realize that, and that takes time and lived experience. In the West, with all of the materialism that is shoved down our throats from a young age, we very much grow up disconnected from ourselves.