Dear genderspecials, transtrenders, nonbinaries, and special snowflakes of all shapes, sizes, trans-dimensional orientations, and categorizations

Do you really think you are the first person to ever feel the way you feel about your body, your gender identity, your sexual preferences, and everything else to do with who you are and what you prefer?

Do you honestly believe that, in all of human history, no one else has thought or felt the way you do about their genitals or who they’d like to share them with?

Can you, with absolute sincerity and honesty, say that you are the only people.. The only generation, even, to experience life the way you are experiencing it now?

Did it ever cross your minds that maybe.. JUST MAYBE… What you are feeling is NOT some fanciful, unexplored, fascinating new thing that needs dozens of new labels and tags and qualifiers and categorizations?

What if, and I hope you are still following me by this point, you were simply just living out the human condition? Think about it. Countless people before you have been born, grown up, lived, loved, learned, explored, realized, and matured. Those people, the people who have come before you and experienced things quite similar to what you are experiencing right now, are telling you that your feelings are not unique or special or unheard of.

Actually, those same people are trying to tell you that you, as a young person, are quite likely to literally grow out of these dumb, erroneous beliefs. That your self-assured conviction to some of these things are completely misguided… And you aren’t listening.

Why is that? Why do you think that feeling that you are sometimes in love with some people but not other people makes you some new, unheard of thing that you, and some other kids on the internet, had to distinguish as some unique sexuality or identity that was separate from the normal shit that everyone else goes through and has already gone through?

The short and simple truth is that you’re a bunch of idiots, but you’ll grow out of it. So stop being such a bunch of self-righteous assholes about it, because everyone got sick of teenaged angst and attitude back in the 90s, and putting a new spin on it doesn’t mean it isn’t the same old song and dance we’ve been doing for centuries.