reading about the new trans freakout in the uk. a trans employee of a department store asked a customer if they needed any help. this is one of the most common social interactions in all of society. there is no wilder accusation being made. this is a society gripped by madness.

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Increasingly convinced that both the anti-trans and anti-immigrant hysterias are fundamentally psychological rebellions against the complexity of modernity.

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  1. It has to do with the mutability of identities. The notion that a Honduran can become an American or a woman become a man is intolerable for people whose personality is structured around these things as concrete and unchangeable.

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  2. yeah a lot of the trans freakout is clearly about demanding the government step in to protect you from briefly feeling uncomfortable in a social interaction

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