💬 Off-Topic How did you first find out that trans people exist?

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"Trans people" don't exist. If you're asking when I first found out that crossdressers exist, it was in movies as a kid. If you're asking when I first found out that mentally ill people with delusions exist, that was some time when I was a kid. If you're asking when I first found out that some people have the delusion they are the opposite sex, that was probably Renee Richards.
 
I used to watch Sinatra Says and No Bullshit back in 7th grade and I remember Sinatra making quite a few videos on Riley Whats-his-face. That’s how I found out about troons. I had an earlier incident with a tranny cashier at Target when I was about 10 but I couldn’t comprehend that idea back then so I don’t think it really counts. I thought he was just a spy or something lmao
 
That's really difficult for me to pin down. We watched Monty Python on PBS in the 1970s so I would have seen the troupe wearing drag (always very funny). My friend took me to a screening of Rocky Horror in 1978, crossdressing man again. I guess it must have been Renee Richards who made me aware of men who think they're women. My dad was so disgusted by Richards and let us know in very non woke terms how unnatural it was. Pooners were a fairly new concept, perhaps 1990s or later. My mom had a lesbian friend about whom my dad made cryptic (to naive me) remarks about her sexuality and gender.

Men in drag doing comedy delight me. Troons and poons of any stripe disgust and anger me. TTD
 
I grew up in a large metropolitan area with neighborhoods that catered to all walks of life. I regularly saw ~gender variant~ people while growing up in the [DECADE]. The way it was explained to me was that trans people were (usually) gay people who hated themselves and needed to "live" as the other sex in order to function, but everyone understood them as their biological sex, including the trans people.
 
I saw this Phil Donahue show in January 1980.
The guy was partly right when he said that people he meets in public didn't see him as a man.
Now, in 2025, he is obviously a man in makeup.
In the 1970's and'80's, trannys weren't known of and so 99.9% of people looking at him would have just seen an unfortunately ugly woman.

But, more importantly, this, this show, back in January 1980, 45 years ago! was the beginning of the media etc pushing the trans agenda.
If you watch this, you will see the very beginnings of the ideas and concepts that are being pushed on us today.
back then, nobody knew anything really, so the audience in the studio and around the world, just took it all in unquestioningly.

 
I remember Ace Ventura, but that was played for yuks and I don't think I ACTUALLY understood what the Ray Finkle character was. I think my first actual exposure was when I was still a kid, just a little later. My family and I went to a Golden Corral for breakfast after church services, and I remember the server taking us to our seats and the next table over there was what I now understand was a very obvious and poorly passing old tranny. My father refused to sit down, had words with the server that I do not remember only that he sounded pissed off, and then we were seated on the other side of the restaurant.

I remember my parents exchanging words in that hasty sorta hushed whisper-with-your-hand-up way that people used to do thinking kids couldn't hear it afterwards. Later on (as in, a couple of years later) they ran that morning by me again I guess because I was old enough to "get it" and I've been wary of trannies ever since.
 
I got recommended Lily Orchard's video about Steven Universe. I remember being very confused why the male voice was using a female avatar but I supposed it was just some kind of odd character/aesthetic choice. The troon explosion of 2020 also placed me side-by-side a lot of troons in the online communities I lurked. I can't really recall the first time I met a troon face to face since I was already quite desensitized to the idea by that point, though I have encountered proportionately WAY more pooners than MtFs in real life compared to the internet.
 
Me and my dad walked into a gas station, the guy behind the counter had hair like Hulk Hogan, but was wearing a lot of makeup and his nametag said: "Debbie". My dad paid for the gas and when we left I asked him what was up with that guy, and my dad said: "Son, that's what happens when you grow up without a father because if you ever turn out like that I'll kill you myself".

My dad's name... was Albert Einstein.

And then everyone clapped.
 
First encounter was in a public washroom at a campground late at night. The perv must have been lurking outside watching the door. He took the stall next to mine and tried to start a conversation about pee and poop, then asked for toilet paper and put his hand under the divider. I will never forget the falsetto voice, the giant man feet in sparkly ruby slippers and glitter nail polish on the huge man hand. I pulled up my pants and ran our the door without a word. I was ten years old.
 
Some guy I met in freshman year of high school (2011) told me he was starting to transition at the end of the year and then I never saw him after the year ended.
 
Close to where i studied there was a street that was famous for having a fuck load of crossdressers, transexuals, even regular whores.
For some fucking reason, when i was 10 year old or so, my parents used to drive through those streets because they found it hilarious to see grown men with beards wearing dresses. They never did or said anything to them, they would just look around while driving and comment amongst themselves, they would laugh out loud.

One thing that fucking scarred me for life was when a crossdresser (i think it was very unusual to find actual transexuals that did HRT and all of that in 2006 ~ 2008, when this happened) just decided to take off the panties he was wearing, squatted and started to pee and i could see his balls hanging. It's funny because even at that age i wasn't confused, i knew they were men because i knew what women looked like and they just looked like men in wigs (which it's what they are), but i still have something from almost 20 years ago etched into my memory because of my parents. lmao
 
I was in Toys'R'Us buying something with my mom. The cashier was a man in his 40s wearing a dress, fake nails and long hair. He was trying to make his voice sound more effeminate but it wasn't working. He was a stereotypical old, ugly man in a dress tranny. I had never seen anything like that before in my life so I was staring and just confused. My mom did her best to shield me from these things so I had no idea creatures like this could exist. I was also very young at the time. He tried to strike up a conversation with my mom but she was trying to rush out of there and he wouldn't take the hint. When we got to the car, my mom explained to me how the person was mentally ill and a freak. Also to not stare next time because it's rude.
 
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