The Social Pyramid Scheme Theory on Transgenderism

Introduction

This page is somewhere that I can write down my ideas regarding a theory I am formulating about transgenderism and how it spreads. Originally I referred to this as a validation ponzi scheme, but after some consideration and research I think a pyramid scheme is a better descriptor. If you think a ponzi scheme is a better way of thinking of it, so be it. It only serves as the preface for the idea, so the specifics aren't that important.

As a disclosure, I am not a psychologist. I took some psychology in highschool but that's the extent of my technical knowledge. Everything else you will read on this page is a series of observations and inferences based on what I have seen numerous times in my experience. If you wish to discredit it now, I would first say you're probably pretty close minded, but I would also ask that you at least read through to the end.

Table of Contents

Preface

This theory does not aim to explain the entire transgender phenomenon (though it explains a fair bit). There are too many aspects of it for such a theory to cover. Instead, this theory will only be attempting to consider one thing, that is how transgenderism spreads socially through the concept I am dubbing a social pyramid scheme. I will not be using the term gender because not only is it destructive and propaganda, but it is totally irrelevant to my theory. If you are offended or disappointed by this, simply mentally replace all instances of the word 'sex' with the word 'gender,' though I wouldn't advise you do so because it prevents you from taking an objective point of view.

Part 1: What is a Social Pyramid Scheme?

A Pyramid Scheme is a business model that recruits members via a promise of payments or services for enrolling others into the scheme, rather than supplying investments or sale of products. A ponzi scheme is different from a pyramid scheme, you can read up on that to see why I chose to use this for my theory.

The crux of the analogy that I am trying to go for by describing this as a pyramid scheme is that a set of individuals are recruited, and the only way they can see returns is to recruit others.

While a pyramid scheme may be a marketing/business strategy, at the end of the day marketing and business is all human behavior and psychology, so the same points apply. A social pyramid scheme therefore, is one where rather than monetary or business value being gained from recruiting participants, social value is gained.

Part 2: Transgenderism

I have a lot of disjointed thoughts that don't go in any particular order about the subject, but I felt the should go after the definition for a social pyramid scheme. Maybe you can pick up on what I'm getting at even before part 3.

What is Transgenderism?

Transgenderism is a phenomenon in which an individual believes the sex of their brain does not match the sex of their body. There are many theories as to why, but the distilled truth is that an individual is unhappy and being their desired ("true") sex is a way to solve said unhappiness.

Unhappiness

Have you ever seen a transgender person who is happy? When I say happy, don't confuse it for being able to laugh at jokes, or enjoy some time with a friend. When I say happy, I mean wholesomely happy - this means someone who is content with all aspects of their life. From my anecdotal experience, every single transgender person I have ever met has been unhappy. They are universally unhappy, almost as if being unhappy is a requirement for being transgender in the first place.

Validation

Validation is the social behavior in which one person "validates" another by giving them words of affirmation, praise, or encouragement. It gets a bit muddy to define because many times transgender people will say "You are valid" and I can't exactly say "Validation is saying you are valid" because that makes no sense. But I'm sure you can understand the general idea - validation for a transgender person is when they are told that it's okay they are transgender, and that it's a good thing. While validation does not have to come from another transgender person, it most often does. In transgender circles, there will be lots of validation for individuals who enter the space. Validation outside of these spaces often comes from other members of the LGBT community, or "allies."

Validation is not a "one and done" deal. Because they are perpetually unhappy, and because they cannot solve their unhappiness with validation, only alleviate it temporarily, they must have a continual stream of validation throughout their life in order to stay afloat. This need may stay constant, though from what I've seen it appears to grow over time.

Causes/Escapism

Why exactly does transgenderism happen? Well, if you're using my scheme, I can't exactly say how it started but I can say why it continues to happen. My understanding is that transgenderism is not something you are born with, nor do I believe that it's "real" (your brain is not of a different sex, you may think so for other reasons). The two main causes are Autogynephilia (AGP) and unhappiness. Despite what others claim, I don't actually believe that AGP is the primary reason for the spread of transgenderism. Instead, I believe it is unhappiness, and the rapid wide spread of transgenderism is due to first world societies being deeply troubled in the modern era and that there is an epidemic of unhappiness.

For an individual who is very unhappy, such as an easily manipulated teenager (the majority of transgenders started in this time window), any means of becoming happy is desirable. However, many of the ways of doing so are unavailable to people. People are stuck working bad jobs, being forced to go to school, having nothing to look forward to and no enjoyment. These are situations you can't get out of with a snap of your fingers. Enter: transgenderism. The core idea behind transgenderism is 'gender dysphoria,' the idea that you can experience unhappiness from not being your "true" sex. Human beings have a tendency to look for explanations and try to get understanding of everything (see how easily religion or the big bang spread due to giving explanations for the universe). For a society which, due to propaganda, has been convinced that work, school, and the general modern lifestyle are simply facts of life, the idea that these could be making you unhappy is not something most people would think of on their own. So, when transgenderism enters the equation, it is an easy thing for people to latch on to as an explanation for their unhappiness. "Well, I'm unhappy, it must be gender dysphoria, and I must be transgender! This means therefore that transitioning will remove this unhappiness, and make me happy."

Flaws in thinking

The early stages of transgenderism are earlier than you might think. Someone probably has latched onto the idea in their mind, this is when it truly begins. They haven't started transitioning, using pronouns, or anything like that, but the propaganda has already taken hold in their brain. One of the earliest things that transgender propaganda tells you is that you should look for signs that you were "always transgender." The notion that you can simply "become" transgender challenges the ideology itself, therefore a core point in it must be that you were born that way. Transgenderism as a movement could not exist if it were common belief that you can become transgender.

When people are being recruited into becoming transgender, they make frequent use of availability bias - the human brain makes shortcuts based on what is prominent and easy to remember. For instance, when it comes to transgenderism, they are taught to think about times in their past where they felt like the opposite gender. Maybe they wore a dress once. Perhaps they played with dolls for a few weeks. Because it was so unique, the human brain is very quick to bring these points up, making you believe that because you had these desires, it must have been a sign that you were always transgender. However, your brain is focusing on a few times when you acted like the opposite sex, and it is ignoring the years and tens of thousands of times where you were acting like your actual sex. Additionally, sex based activities like playing with dolls or wearing dresses are a modern invention, human children that were hunter gatherers would have played with dolls if you gave some to them, whether they were male or female. In no way do the majority of actions that transgender people say "made me realize I was trans" actually have anything to do with being transgender.

Egg Culture

As a quick side note, I felt I should mention this even though this is largely redundant with this and the next section. There is an idea in the transgender movement that some people are "eggs," that is to say, someone who is transgender but hasn't hatched yet. This is a manipulative idea used to recruit people who are on the fence or are unsure of themselves, by implying that being doubtful is just a stage in the process and that this is yet another sign of them being transgender. I personally believe this is one of the most predatory parts of the transgender movement.

Children

I do not think children are relevant to this theory, since I don't really care to bring up morals about it. The only thing of note here is that younger people are vastly more susceptible to propaganda, and as such children will fall for this type of thing very easily. A child who has very little understanding of the world, let alone themself, is not equipped to fight against this propaganda and will believe in it readily.

Part 3: Propaganda

I make use of the phrase "propaganda" many times during this theory. However, it's important to be clear what I mean.

What is Propaganda?

While you may think that propaganda is strictly something that governments use for war, that is far from the truth. Instead, propaganda is a way of spreading doctrine through information. In examples of war, propaganda is used for the purpose of getting a population to be in favor for the cause of war (spreading the war doctrine). But if you can convince people with propaganda to want to die for their country in a war, then convincing them of something more mundane with propaganda is child's play.

Types of Propaganda

In school when you learn of propaganda, you are shown posters of countries at war, trying to get their citizens to enlist or support the war effort (to boost morale). It would be foolish to assume that propaganda only comes in the form of posters plastered on the walls of buildings. In the case of this Uncle Sam poster, the doctrine of joining the war effort is being veiled behind the idea of nationalism/supporting your country, even though the two things are not necessarily the same.

You should instead re-frame your thinking of what propaganda is. Instead of being a poster that attempts to indoctrinate you, propaganda can be anything that attempts to indoctrinate you by hiding behind other information. In the modern age, a meme would be the equivalent of a propaganda poster. An image that can be spread easily, which pushes a doctrine or idea. With posters/memes, the actual intent of the propaganda is hidden behind the content of the image.

Below is an example of such a meme. The doctrine behind this image is that selecting a female character in a videogame is a sign that you are transgender. It is not explicitly stated, though it's implied with the character on the left showing a doubting face and being implied to be "in the right" by being drawn larger and more confident, while the other person refuting it with (valid) points is shown to be smaller and less confident. Someone may say that this is just a seemingly harmless meme, but I'd ask that person to say the same about the various WW2 propaganda posters and see if they ended up being harmless.
Transgender meme(Image too large for this page)

Propaganda can be more than just an image. Since the core idea of propaganda is simply that you're pushing doctrine through information, propaganda does not have to be a poster. It can be a speech, a video, a phrase, or even another idea itself. Therefore, people can unknowingly spread propaganda simply by parroting opinions or phrases that they hear from others. For instance, as I mentioned in an earlier section, the "you were always trans" idea is propaganda that pushes someone deeper into the transgender rabbit hole by convincing them that not only are they transgender, they were meant to be transgender. This converts them to the transgender doctrine, and once they believe they were always transgender, it will be hard or impossible for them to accept that they weren't. Other examples of propaganda include catchphrases such as "trans rights" (of which there are none they are lacking in the first world), ideas such as egg culture and gender euphoria, as well as immense quantities of memes.

Part 4: Putting it All Together

So now that we've established what a social pyramid scheme is, what transgenderism is in relation to this theory, and what propaganda is, how do they all tie together?

The Theory

The main theory and basis for this page is that transgenderism is a social pyramid scheme in which transgender people who are unhappy (all of them) propagandize other unhappy people into becoming transgender, for the goal of gaining validation for themselves. After which, this newly indoctrinated group must recruit others to gain their own validation. Since transgenderism does not solve unhappiness, this cycle continues indefinitely. Each person has the capacity to convert others and spread transgender propaganda, which ends up having rippling effects on multiple people, thus it grows exponentially over time and it is why there is such a sudden and sharp rise in transgenderism in the last few decades.

Because each person who is transgender is unhappy, they need to get validation. This validation likely does not come enough from their family and friends (most people only support transgenderism because it is a social norm and they fear backlash for not supporting it, not because they actually do). They go to transgender spaces in which they can receive said validation (a "circlejerk") and they receive even more propaganda to cement them further into their beliefs. They then, because of this propaganda, believe that anyone who is unhappy could be transgender (though this is believed subconsciously). The end result is that those who are transgender end up converting those around them in order to gain more validation under the guise that they are helping them, which is why it has been documented that transgenderism spreads like a social virus, often converting entire friend groups.

For instance, say Joe is feeling unhappy, depressed. He doesn't know where he belongs in the world, who he's supposed to be (because of his lifestyle such as his job/school, though Joe is unaware of this). He's browsing online one day and comes across the idea of transgenderism. He looks more into this, and reads about "gender dysphoria" which states that you can be unhappy not being your true sex. He reads that anyone can be transgender and that they only need to look back in their life to see if they have had experiences as a kid that would point towards being transgender. He remembers as a kid liking videogames with female characters, or playing with some of his sister's dolls. Perhaps Joe enjoys watching moe anime with cute girls. At this point, the idea begins to form in Joe's mind that maybe, just maybe, he could be transgender because of all these female oriented things in his past. Joe has now become indoctrinated, and he has begun down the transgender pipeline, which the chances overwhelmingly point towards resulting in his premature death should he reach the later stages. Joe, who is inevitably unhappy, seeks out others in order to gain validation. However, because admitting he is unhappy would in essence be breaking the social taboo of going against transgenderism, he is forced to pretend to be happy in the face of those who oppose him. This false sense of happiness also functions to spread to others - when he is discussing transgenderism with friends or strangers, he will say how it made him happy when in fact it didn't. This propaganda further indoctrinates others, spreading down the chain.

Part 5: How did we get here?

How has transgenderism spread this much if it's such blatant propaganda? Well, first off it's not actually too blatant. But even if it were, it would be because being against transgenderism is a social taboo.

Social Taboos

A taboo, if you somehow don't know the word, is some kind of behavior that is looked down upon and shunned by society at large. Being racist, or a pedophile are examples of taboos. In both of these cases, the behavior itself is considered so reprehensible that people tend to shun it without a second thought, even the notion of being a racist or pedophile can destroy lifelong relationships.

The n-word is an example of such a taboo. In modern society, this word is not hated because it's racist (necessarily). It is hated now purely because it is a taboo. For instance, white people are now probably more offended by the n-word than black people are - the reason being is that white people are more inclined towards following social rules and trends, so they are more sensitive to cultural taboos than black people are. So not even the fact that you're racist, but the mere idea of breaking such a taboo is enough to offend someone who isn't even on the receiving end of the insult.

Transgenderism works much the same way. Though it applies to other things like homosexuality, it seems to be most fervent for transgenderism. Regardless of your reasons, merely being against transgenderism to any degree is considered a social taboo. Thus, transgenderism as an ideology goes totally unchallenged in the main stream, because anyone who speaks against it would be labeled "transphobic" and be shunned due to breaking the social taboo. It isn't because of their specific ideas, or whether or not they're a hateful person, or even if they're truly against it and are just simply criticizing it - any opposition is labeled the same. Communism wishes it had propaganda this good to the point where even thinking of being anti-communist is enough to ruin your social life.

Lies by Omission

Another key feature of the transgender movement is that the propaganda only sells you on the benefits, not on the downsides.

It does not tell you that 99.99% of people are totally and completely unable to pass as the opposite gender, regardless of surgery/hormones/makeup. Anyone who sees a transgender person knows they are transgender - we are biologically wired to use subtle body feature cues to be able to quickly determine the sex of another of our species. Things like the size of your neck, shoulders, hips, facial structure, height, hands, everything is a tell. Contrary to what the propaganda may tell you, wearing a wig, taking hormones, and getting breast implants does not make you a convincing female, nor does shaving your head, taking hormones, and getting beard implants make you a convincing male. There are some very very rare exceptions, but these people were already enough to be mistaken for the opposite sex even before transitioning, let alone after it. Of course, due to the social taboos of being against transgenderism, nobody dares speak up or against them, nor will they mention that they don't pass.

It does not tell you that genital reconstruction surgery is terrible and does not work at all for the long term. For male to females, the surgical vagina is considered a wound by your body, and will constantly try to close itself unless stimulated (see: dilating). For female to males, well, it's just a meat tube made of rolled up skin, it's a far cry from a fully functional penis.

It does not tell you that hormone replacement causes bone damage and mental issues, and that puberty blockers have been correlated with depression and other mental issues. It does not tell you that we poorly understand the effects these treatments have on your body, that we don't understand the brain enough as is - let alone what pumping unnatural amounts of hormones into it will do to you. It does not tell you that many aspects of hormone treatment are irreversible - if you get a beard as a female to male from testosterone, getting off testosterone will mean you still have a beard - if you get breasts as a male to female from estrogen, getting off estrogen will mean you still have breasts.

Afterword

If you've gotten to this point, thanks for reading. For the most part, I just wanted to write my thoughts down somewhere. However, it would be nice if this could help some people. I believe transgenderism is an unfortunate byproduct of our industrial society. Unlike many people who oppose transgenderism, I totally sympathize with those who have become transgender. From my perspective, they are victims of propaganda, people who were unhappy and fell victim to this propaganda during a time of weakness and vulnerability.

If you are a transgender reader, I would especially like to thank and congratulate you for getting to the end. In modern society we are very polarized, and we are taught (not explicitly, but learned through social behavior) to not even listen to the viewpoints of your "opponents." So if you managed to read this entire sheet, then that means you've broken some degree of this social conditioning. If you are looking to de-transition, well first off if you are truly a very objective and analytical person, this page should have convinced you. But most people are not (I'm not either), and so this will take some time to digest and a lot of introspection in order to fully settle in. My first step would be to advise you to be more observant of the world, notice the propaganda wherever it is. Question social norms, why do we believe certain things? Lastly, and the hardest part, is to simply accept that your sex is what you were born as, and you can't change it. Until we reach some cyberpunk future where you can modify the DNA of everyone and reconstruct body parts in labs, this is totally unachievable. But, even then, because of what I outlined earlier you will still be unhappy even as the opposite sex, so it's not exactly a solution. Be proud of who you are, having self confidence is a step towards being happy. It's okay for a man to have a few female interests. It's okay for a woman to have a few male interests. This doesn't mean you need to destroy and mutilate your body, accept who you are and move forward.