Just when I thought I’d seen everything, the internet delivered something new to my screen and brain. The phenomenon, colloquially known as “transmaxxing,” is not an act, but rather is an event. The transgender identity meets and crashes against, with a glorious confusion, desperation, and creativity, the incel (involuntary celibate) community.
Trans ideology + Incel Ideology (please don’t ask me which pill, blue, black or whatever, I’ve no idea) = Transmaxxing.
For those as much in the dark as I was until yesterday, transmaxxing is a choice some people make. It seems to be mostly young men, when
they become disillusioned by their repeated failure in the traditional mating market of instant hookups via Tinder, Grinder or whatever and decide to transition to female to increase their chances in life.
These men don’t want to be women, they do not identify as women nor do they experience gender dysphoria. They mostly hate women and see them as a privileged class reaping the rewards of a biased social system that favours them above involuntarily celibate menfolk.
The logic, if it may be called so, is that things would be easier in life living as a woman, or at least one would have more luck in love and sex living as a woman. It’s the kind of idea that sounds like it was gestated in the darker corners of an internet forum, and that’s because, well, it was.
Here’s the original Transmax manifesto (link opens in new window): https://www.dropbox.com/s/mked61vg77647ty/transmaxxing8.pdf?e=1&dl=0
Some highlights (all typos are as per the original):
I have been on estrogen for about 6 months now. It all started when i got my new therapist three months before that, who referred me to a new general practitioner he knows. Obviously i told him nothing about being incel or hating females. only that i always felt like a girl, which was a massive lie.
I just wanted to get hormones to attempt a gender transition and hopefully become attracted to dudes like the other trans on reddit, who so ironically betray themselves and their cause by casually posting truth.
I just want to say for the record i don’t believe in any of the trans bullshit about being born that way.
Maybe an exceptionally small amount of them are. Yet if you read their forums or subs it’s so extremely common how many of them are just guys who wank to shemale porn and have autogynephilia. The vast majority almost always speak about how their brains get changed by hormones. Further proving they are truly male in the brain. Basically they are mostly cross-dressing fetishists. Maybe a very few of them really were born with a fucked up brain but it’s hard to weed out the liars. Since the fake trans just copy what the real trans say. Yet they let it slip in their posts how much they love tranny porn or wanking their she cocks. Not that it matters, more trans is always a good thing.
Before the pitchforks get sharpened and torches lit by you right-wingers who love a good psycho-libtard outrage, let us take a step back and look at this thing with the kind of cynicism it deserves. The very concept of transmaxxing is a sad commentary upon the state of cultural gender dynamics and the general state of young men today.
Raised on an educational diet of the endless evils of toxic masculinity, rainbow flags, and bullshit it is as if someone took the most reductive stereotypes about men and women, flavored them liberally with fatalism and outrage-empowerment, and then come up with a solution so outlandish that it could only have been born from the depths of an online echo chamber, all carefully curated by your favourite social media algorithms.
That is probably the longest sentence I’m ever going to write.
Anyway, the very notion presumes that being a woman is somehow an ‘easier’ mode of existence – a notion so laughably naïve as to make it possible only for one who has never so much as glanced at the history of gender inequality, popped themselves over to the Islamic Middle East, has clearly never menstruated unexpectedly whilst wearing white, bore children or had to deal with endless oversexed creepy men. But from the POV of the incel, the grass is always greener for those with bitchtits and manginas.
Second, transmaxxing is a slap in the face to the genuinely transgendered. Gender is the core of one’s sense of self, not a costume one can throw on when times are bad or a trick to use for personal gain. To reduce it to such would have been incredibly offensive, but also dangerously undermining the reality and struggle of true transgender life.
But the single most cynical aspect of the entire phenomenon is the state of male loneliness and isolation, which it speaks to in our society. The fact that there are individuals who feel so disconnected by their life circumstances, so disillusioned by their future sexual and career prospects, that they see transitioning as a viable strategy for securing that most elemental form of human connection—affection, sexual satisfaction and/or fulfillment.
This is a damning indictment of our collective failure to attend to mental health, social isolation, and negative aspects of masculinity in our increasingly bizarre modern times.
With mental health professionals increasingly endorsing the irrational ethos of identity politics that suggests, “what you say and what you feel
is what you truly are” combined with, “you only feel bad because you haven’t accepted your true nature (i.e. a gender other than the one you thought you had)” rather than seeking rationalisation, validation, authentication and normalisation of one’s experience.
In my experience of therapy, too many therapists across all disciplines cannot differentiate client behaviour from their emotions, emotions from their identity, or their experience of life from these and thus conflate the lot into one big central mess for which they then seek an explanation. These explanations usually just follow whatever the prevailing current thing is.
Let’s not forget, as we peer into this putrid abyss of modern identity politics, the individual people flailing about in its depths. Not mere objects of ridicule or objects of contempt, but real sufferers of a biased and corrupted educational system and a society and a culture that has utterly failed them, leaving them unequipped with any serious way of dealing with the vagaries and complexities of human relations and self-identity.
It is no wonder that such bizarre solutions as transmaxxing are now emerging.