It is awkward and forced. But resentment does just as much damage to yourself as anything else.
Eventually we will all have at least one trans friend, individuals can be understood and accepted.
The braying of herds should be ignored, the individual should be exalted.
The need for external validation is the whole
ing problem killing all of these trans folks and stultifying many individuals. It's not something inborn, it is an artifice, a learned behaviour inherited from tribal ancestors who huddled close when the predators came. Like a genius invention from long ago, with a radioactive core that is now cracked, poisoning us. It is an impulse that is no longer needed and is demonstrably harmful.
... for the purposes of self-aggrandizement.
It is an insult and it is a damning insult, equivalent to whore, dick or
.
Also, it's not just the "right". It's anyone outside the sound-proofed bubble of self-righteous orthodoxy that claims to be on the left. Which is, you know... most humans.
Including people, like me, who is sickened by any form of deontological ethics, due to its inherently transitory fashion-like nature, while claiming the opposite. Whether it is religiously dictated, politically dictated or dictated by some supposed categorical imperative. Get rid of dictated ethics and we get rid of virtue-signalling.
If only there were a deontological system that was universally accepted in which the final commandment was to jump off a cliff. Imagine that, a cleansed world with only Existentialists, Anarchists, Subjectivists, Naturists, Nichomacheans etc. I mean, we'd starve in our caves, but it'd be sweet for a few days.
Damn, I went on quite a rant there.