Transphobia sucks to be subjected to for the obvious reason that being hated hurts and being discriminated against makes life harder.

But I think another way that transphobia affects the mental health of trans people is that we are constantly subjected to people being extremely confidently wrong. The majority of society, in fact. And I think that makes us feel crazy.

Like, the trans women having an advantage in sports thing has been scientifically disproven so many times. Bone density, wrong. Muscle mass, wrong.

The prevalence of the term "biological women", and especially its use by "neutral parties" and "allies". The way cis people have zero idea what HRT does and have so much magical thinking around chromosomes. The way that *doctors* have so many misconceptions around progesterone, etc...

Arguments around "singular they", especially by English teachers and "educated people".

Extremely bad faith arguments about trans mass shooters. The complete myth of trans bathroom predators. Fearmongering around gender neutral bathrooms, despite their previously-unproblematic existence on planes and in homes.

Not a single one of these things stands up to even the most cursory amount of research or reasoning. And yet we still hear about them day in and day out. The media treats them as being worthy of debate. Our own fucking families consistently fall for this bullshit, and it takes so much more effort to convince them of the (extremely obvious) truth than it ever did to sell them the lies.

And it's all so fucking obvious to us that we start to feel crazy. How do other people not see through it? If the number of people who see things so clearly is so few, are we somehow the people who are wrong? Are we missing something big that blinds us to the complexity? Are we in so deep that we can't see reality?

But no, it's because transphobia is a manufactured wedge-issue and the average person has zero idea how much propaganda they are exposed to and zero inoculation against believing it.