And there’s the trendy angle.

My first inkling that trans was becoming trendy was in 2012 when a household of five lesbians I knew all transitioned within a year. It just seemed statistically impossible. And yet! — Katie Herzog (@kittypurrzog) January 19, 2020

Two of the 5 still ID as trans and maybe always will. Trans people exist and social and physical transition helps many of them. But something else is happening here and ignoring or suppressing it is going to create a backlash that will hurt both trans and other LGB people. — Katie Herzog (@kittypurrzog) January 19, 2020

This is not an exaggeration. And it’s not just among kids. Most of my friends are in their 30s and the dykes are absolutely disappearing. — Katie Herzog (@kittypurrzog) January 19, 2020

What I don’t get about this, and probably never will, is why it’s trendy. What’s so trendy about it? What’s the outcome? Lesbians become…straight men? I’m not seeing the trendy.

Call me old-fashioned but I’d rather have more lesbians than more straight men. There’s no great shortage of straight men in the world, so what’s the burning need to make more of them by magicking lesbians?

Call me old-fashioned and boomer and TERF and all the rest of it, but I still think lesbians and gays (and feminists) do far more to uproot and disrupt and sabotage the rules and restrictions of gender than The Magic Gender Party on its best day.