We worked together for a few years. He was from the midwest, really smart dude and the company I worked for at the time hired him and moved him out to work in the San Francisco office. (I'm WFH in another state, fwiw.)
Guy's personality was a little unsure of himself, almost like he was kind of quiet but I think it was mostly being small town midwest style of humble and now being thrown into the city. Other than that he was just a normal dude, kind of a neckbeard with a boiler (beer gut). Liked knives and weapons and stuff. Just a normal dude.
Before we hired him he was running a pretty popular opensource project in his spare time, I don't know how he had the time honestly. Not only was he doing great stuff for us but he was making free software in his spare time.
Anyway, that was a while back. I recently checked in on him and it seems those trans people got ahold of him and his impressionable mind. Fucking ruined him.
Now he's changed his name to some bastardization of his original name, his Twitter bio is full of weird pronouns I've never heard of and saying he's some sort of poly bisexual lesbian or something. I don't even know what that means. I looked at some of his posts and he's running around the proverbial halls of Twitter asking gender questions, calling "terfs" racists, trying to understand what "I don't identify as a woman, I am a woman" means. This guy went from mild mannered regular dude to the most tormented person I think I've ever met.
I looked at his github and his contributions went from daily, to weekly, to barely even contributing any longer. Guy can't hold a job anymore. Nobody will hire him, even in San Francisco. Add to this he's in California and he's been stuck in a small apartment for the past year.
Fuck these trans people. They've ruined this poor dudes life. It's on him for buying in but fuck man, I hate to see somebody so smart and great for society get wrapped up in all this. This guy is so tormented trying to figure out where he fits in with this trans thing, but at the same trying so hard to be unique, it's literally driving him insane. He's not well any longer. Knowing this dude before, and seeing him now, I can see why so many of these people end up on the wrong side of a rope.
I'm worried for my niece and nephew. They are prime targets for the trans mob, and they're young enough to be easily indoctrinated. My niece idolizes her uncle (not me, on her dad's side) who's a fighter pilot. She's a total tomboy. My nephew, on the other hand, is decidedly not manly. The whole family kind of expects him to come out as gay at some point. I don't want to see them end up as trans suicide statistics.
Keep them out of the city. I'm in small town Texas, neighbors 20something beautiful daughter recently moved to Austin to take a job. Now she's all vegan and shaved her hair all off. I know where this is headed.
That may be a small deterrent. They pray on impressionable youth on online forums. If OP's niece and nephew are still children (under 18) then they should remove access to the internet as much as possible. No mobile phones and all internet use is an a public area of the home with the screen facing outward to continuously monitor use. Then involve them in sports perhaps or other group activities with non degenerates. The ship can be turned around if OP's family takes immediate and decisive steps.