Title: This Is Worth a Fight Date: 2020-01-01 Category: other Tags: cathartic Status: draft > _I thought I was smart, I thought I was right > I thought it better not to fight, I thought > There was a virtue in always being cool > So when it came time to fight > I thought I'll just step aside > And that the time would prove you wrong > And that you > Would be the fool_ > > —"Fight Test" by the Flaming Lips > Yet each generation seems to accept the craziness of the past generation, even when balking at the craziness of the new generation. We think that in the past, academia was on track, and that those who opposed progress were crazy, right-wing nut-jobs. But we dissidents think that this time, this new generation–well–they have gone to far and have gone crazy. There is a certain Cthulian horror when suddenly you realize that many of the nut-jobs in the past were actually right. Many were slandered retroactively, not because they were wrong, or evil, not because they made bad predictions, but because they lost and the winners wrote the histories. There is a horror in realizing that you are just like them, this cycle has played out before, and that your children’s generation will see you as the nut-job. > > —[Devin Helton](http://devinhelton.com/historical-amnesia.html) So, we have this cultural narrative for "Hey everyone, I'm transgender and you need to respect that." I agree that this is an improvement over the bad old world of transition not even being a thing, and I'm happy for everyone who has benefited from it. We do _not_ have a cultural narrative for "Hey everyone, I clearly have the same underlying psychological condition that causes males like me to perform the behavior of coming out as transgender, but all the existing cultural narratives around this are so obviously delusional that I can't possibly participate in them;