Stepdad... I think meant well, but he wasn't very good at being a parent ... but it definitely upset little me and made me feel like my interests didn't matter.

I know what you mean. It can very hard for non-biological parents to have the patience to form a real connection with children, instead of just playing a parent program. I collect stories like yours and am convinced to have found a common pattern. Could you please indulge in a bit of my kitchen psychology and tell me what you think?

but I figured that my sole female friend might actually listen and care about me.

It explained why I was always such an effeminate sissy growing up - I never really WAS a boy at all! I was mentally a girl all along, trapped in a boy's body!

I ended up coming to my mother that I was trans though, and she was 100% supportive about it

A child has to learn how to control his bowel movement to be able to not shit his pants. He later has to learn how to control emotions, frustrations, and then sexual urges, so that his identity is based on more than sexuality and his emotional life. Basically so he doesn't become some weird pervert that gets shunned by polite society. It seems that men and women are fundamentally different in managing their emotions and especially their sexual urges. Boys without a good realtionship to their fathers have a hard time learning to control these in a healthy way, or control them at all. Men deal with a sexual build up they have to actively manage. For women sexual urges have more of a cyclical nature that resolves itself to a degree. From here on I have no real explanaition for a concrete mechanism. But long story short, the way a boy would learn to handle his sexuality from a woman would make him an effeminate, self-hating sex addict. He would be unable to differentiate between what feels good and what is good long term. It is as if women on some level actively encourage this shit, if there is no caring male around that puts a limit to it. This it not to say women are the root of all evil or something like that. A men would be evil in a forceful, uncaring, controlling way. A woman (or a twisted man) would be in a backhanded way that nurtures all sorts of cancerous growth, even if finally damaging to themselves. There is a balance needed to raise children into healthy adults.

she invited me to one of AOL's user made chat rooms - a chat specifically revolving around MtF transgendered people ... The sites explained that the world was inherently bigoted, and a major reason for that was because it was run by men. Men were the root of all evil, and if women - who are inherently more compassionate and loving than men are, were in charge of society, I would never have had to experience the awful oppression I had been subjected to - an oppression that I was not even aware of until that very day.

in the early 2000s. At this point, people being gay was beginning to become more accepted by society, though things like gay marriage were still extremely controversial.

Of course, I had been taught by the chatters and their websites that if anyone refused to accept that I was actually a woman (despite having a penis) or if they refused to adhere to Feminist beliefs, then they were bigots, and I was to cut them out of my life without hesitation.

Said gay guy had a gay online boyfriend who was an adult, when he was still a minor, and when his parents went on vacation, this predator flew across the country to meet up and have sex with my friend. He insisted that he was happily in love with this guy, and I even, at the time, celebrated his love, but now I realize just how fucked up it was. Fast forward a few years later and he starts referring to himself as trans.

They walked away from me again, but this time, it was because I was no longer a leftist Feminist, which THEY now identified as!

Trannys becoming more and more mainstream is a direct result of the intentional destruction of that balance. The resulting young people are vulnerable enough to be groomed in the corners of the internet. Their uncontrolled sexuality is warped into habitual perversions. These clash on many levels with reality. With the plain and obvious Truth. But the internet has made it possible for like minded perverts to perpetuate their illness in isolated bubbles without having to interact with normies to much. So when they come face to face with reality, instead of taking the pain waking up they have already swallowed to much of the Lie and now will try to force others to play along with their delusions. This is grown into a generational feedback loop, for creating sad broken individuals used as ideological foot soldiers. Our parents were discussing the validity of gay marriage. Now parents can lose custody in some parts of the world, if they don't support their hormonally driven teenagers in mutilating their own genitals.

But I was conflicted about all of this. Sure, it was obvious that it was left-wing politics being pushed, but... was that such a bad thing? Maybe their methods were wrong... but surely the idea they were sponsoring was a positive one, right?

And the parenting and tranny issue is just one of the many tentacles of the kraken. What all these have in common is to make you lie often enough to yourself to sever your minds contacts to reality. Then it can rationalize any means for any end, and you become a servant of the Lie.

Sorry for the rambling. But what you have described I have seen so often now, and I need some feedback to order my thoughts on it.

tl;dr The tranny mind virus is snatching our children.