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the other problem with rogd narratives is that the mere presence of trans women who share a community with young afab trans people completely reframes their understanding of what a woman is.
when i was trans identified, the only concrete explanation i got for what men and women were was based on parenthood. if you wanted to be motherly, nurturing and soft, you were a woman. if you wanted to be fatherly, strong and a provider, you were a man.
these days its more explicit - agp trans women openly talk about how much it validates their gender to have giant breasts, be catcalled, to be 'used' by men, 'bred' and so on. if this was the model of womanhood in your community, would you want to be a woman?
'woman' to the parents of afab trans youths means adult human female, but to us, it was drilled into our brains that woman means shallow, vapid, hypersexualised bimbo who exists to serve others. the cult completely redefines that word, making it mortifying for girls.
girls like me were groomed, directly or indirectly, but adult males who fetished the female body and the feminine gender role. seeing teenage gd as a contagion amongst peers is inaccurate - it's grown males who drive girls away from womanhood, not other girls.
