Anime causes gender dysphoria
The other side of kawaii..
https://medium.com/@socjuswiz/masculinity-anime-and-gender-dysphoria-8d682abcec54https://www.dailydot.com/irl/transphobic-doctor-twitter-anime-makes-people-trans/https://lilymaynard.wordpress.com/2018/07/28/rogd-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria/https://boards.fireden.net/a/thread/180698405/http://www.crossdreamers.com/2017/05/masculinity-anime-and-autogynephilia.htmlhttps://4thwavenow.com/2017/01/09/anime-culture-teen-trans-trending/Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria is real:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/9a9ugo/rapid_onset_gender_dysphoria_is_real_and_i/https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180822150809.htm[Then the study got censored]
https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/brown-university-pulls-down-study-suggesting-teens-imitate-peers-by-becoming-trans/78395765/https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/34033/my-13-year-old-daughter-says-she-wants-to-be-a-boy-this-is-out-of-character-forMy daughter, 13, has said she wants to be a boy. A little background: we moved to a new state a year and a half ago. In her new school, she felt isolated among her peers until she met a girl in art, and became good friends. She joined the drama club, and made friends with some 8th graders. They joined [/b]"the diversity club"[/b]. This club is a LGBT club.
https://mattie.lgbt/2018/08/26/waves-of-dysphoria-an-emotional-fedex-arrow/At one point, one of my friends wanted me to go to an anime convention with her. There was a catch, she said. She wanted me to cosplay with her and her friends. Then she showed me the costume she picked out for me. It was a woman from Final Fantasy X. My first reaction was no way. I couldn't possibly do that. My gut, however, wanted to. I couldn't have told you why, but it sounded like fun. I remember spending a few hours reading cosplay forums about crossdressing. In the end, I chickened out and the cosplay didn't happen, but I regret chickening out to this day.
In both of these anecdotes, my dysphoria presented itself as a gut feeling. Something I inherently wanted, but couldn't really bring that want to the forefront of my mind. I couldn't be transgender, because I was a guy. All my guy friends would judge me. My family wouldn't understand. Transgender people know what they are far younger than I was, so I couldn't possibly be one myself. "Just wishful thinking", I'd tell myself.
It wasn't until I become more aware of social justice that my understanding of being transgender came to a head. I can thank Gamergate, a reactionary attack on women developers in video games, for pushing me in the direction of "social justice warriors" and particularly Anita Sarkeesian for her feminism in video games and popular media series of YouTube videos. I started identifying as a feminist. The more time I spent in social justice circles, the more I learned about being transgender, and realizing that it fit who I was. Still, I was in denial. Dysphoria, however, got worse.
Now it began presenting itself as actual hatred for my body. I wouldn't have said it was gender related, but I would look at myself in the mirror and wish things were different. I'd shave a couple of times, and like how my face looked. Laziness and depression would take over, and I'd just grow my beard back, but it was an experiment none the less. It didn't help that friends and family always convinced me I looked better with it.
