Post #2504113

2026-03-07 17:15 UTC

@CosmickTrigger@social.edist.ro Perhaps because back then it was thought of as simply a few cases of people changing from a stereotypical man to a stereotypical woman, or vice versa. I think the scariest part for transphobes is people rejecting the sexual or gender stereotypes altogether.

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@hosford42@techhub.social 2026-03-07 18:31

@the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca This is interesting to me. I'm not even trans, but I reject the stereotypes. I do maleness my own way. I wonder if I'm scary to them when they learn that. Or maybe it's just the visual stereotypes that matter? @CosmickTrigger@social.edist.ro

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@su_liam@mas.to 2026-03-07 21:10

@the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca @CosmickTrigger@social.edist.ro To the degree that the trans panic wasn’t completely astroturfed…

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@count_01@mastodon.social 2026-03-08 18:36

@the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca @CosmickTrigger@social.edist.ro I won't say it didn't happen, because I haven't the full context, but I will say that it seems unlikely, given Hef (and his magazine) spent many of their column inches encouraging young men to reject the strict gender roles their parents (who were Boomers, some of them former hippies) had by the 80s largely embraced.

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