Algorithm

Once you've watched a few detransition videos, the YouTube algorithm simply sends you more of them. The pattern is common: they are young and question themselves and why they went ahead in an environment that tells them you get to choose. This is of course perfect when you understand your core identity and where your motivation comes from but not so much when you don't.

That transgender people exist and always will is beyond question. Today however, the hardest part is figuring that out in an environment which heavily contrasts against a time when we would admit to it only as an absolutely last resort.