No I can adapt to authentic "changing sociopolitical modes" but I have detested fads since I was a freshman in high school. My own coming out was relatively painless, it didn't make me depressed much less suicidal. I can accept that people now pronounce the first c in Arctic but I will never accept the singular they, "reach out" or "moving forward."

I work in software and the industry is so riddled with destructive fads that all the joy I used to experienced has left it. Agile, scrum, test-driven development.

And having grown up taking every opportunity to draw attention to my intelligence as compensation for a severe stutter, it's no surprise that I am especially sensitive to attention-seeking behavior in others, and attention-seeking is all I see in most of this gender controversy and in 100.00% of the nonbinary horseshit. The stutter is largely gone and I have suppressed the attention-seeking boastfuless but I still react to people who always turn the conversation to themselves.

What I am reporting about Norfolk drag queens in 1974 is honest, in fact I was warned many times about them by other gay men. And, yes, some of them were charming, funny,. though the whole camp thing got old fast.