The way I used to explain it, ever since about 2016, watching what I called the “baby trans” running around playing the victim when called out on their problematic behavior is akin to being a gay man in the early 90s in his 60s watch a gay man in his early 20s run around New York City in a red speedo sexually harassing people and calling them homophobic when they tell him to stop.

Your identity is your own personal business, not a “get out of responsibility free“ card. The more I saw people weaponize the trans identity, the more I started to question it myself.

Now that you mention it, I wouldn’t be surprised if they are pushing the mainstream transgender narrative specifically to sterilize the generation that was raised to see through their imperialist lies.

Between oppositional defiance disorder and gender dysphoria in the DSM-V being so vague that they can literally apply to anyone, the latter in females especially, not to mention shareholder primacy in corporate law which governs pharmaceutical companies that are being publicly traded, there is a huge conflict of interest that makes it nearly impossible to uphold the Hippocratic Oath in a franchised medical setting.

Then once they’ve lured them in, they function like a cult telling them their parents don’t really love them if they won’t give hormones and won’t jump on the bandwagon of crazy where everyone pretends she is now suddenly a he.

Exactly, and if anyone in the communities start speaking up about problematic behavior, specifically misogyny, they are made an example of and blacklisted, ensuring nobody else dares to question the new authority that has been established.

Once these children and young adults are isolated from every other avenue of social validation and comfort, they sit down and shut up for the very real fear of being completely alone and made to fend for themselves. That’s textbook how cults work.

I call it being a TERD - Trans-Exempting Restrictive Dickhead - where, if you call out misogyny or other problematic behavior in the trans community, you will either be misgendered as an attempt to devalue your opinion via truscum/ gatekeepers, be told you have “internalized transphobia”, or outright labeled a TERF, completely invalidating your identity and, therefore, your lived experience, for the comfort of those with penises.

RadFem transwomen exist, I’m friends with one who was ridiculed heavily on several Facebook groups for the crime of saying Feminism is first and foremost for female-bodied people and trans misogynists (“see what I did, there?”) need to unpack their privileged socialization. Intersectionality notwithstanding, I don’t know what was incorrect about that statement. If Jane Elliot can prove we will invent prejudices about eye colors within a matter of minutes, how can you say being socialized to believe you’re superior to anyone with a vagina through your formative years will NOT affect how you choose to both behave and perform femininity?

Like “bitch” or “cunt”, TERF is just a slur used to control females who make it a point to question the modus operandi and affirm that sexism is a made-up hierarchy based on biological sex. Why else would they have to tell us they’re transwomen when shutting us down? Why not just say “woman”? Why bring up gender at all? Is internalized misogyny not a thing? Should we all support Tomi Lahren whenever she says something sexist about women needing to “know their place,” just because she’s a woman?

What is a woman? As far as I can tell, gender roles have always been decided by the patriarchy, which is just a way to maintain control over what they consider the cannon fodder and the cannon fodder makers in the military industrial complex.

What you like, who you like, what skills you decide to develop, and how you decide to contribute to society, flawed as it may be in its current incarnation, that’s part of becoming an adult. We all only have so much time on this spinning rock hurtling through space, don’t waste a second more thinking being yourself is anything but right.

Sticks and stones, comrade.

The same thing that causes the high suicide rate in any demographic, the fact that the medical industry has taken over in America and, instead of teaching people how to self soothe and work through their problems without medical intervention, let’s all worship the happy pill.

I had a history teacher who would call me up to his desk for no reason when I was 11. Finally, one of the other girls told me, "He's doing that so he can look at your ass."

I remember being the only girl in a lot of activities in elementary/ middle school - tae kwon do, flag football, not to mention I was the only bisexual person I knew - and getting shunned by my guy friends around fourth/ fifth grade just because I was female. I started saying I was a "bisexual man trapped in a woman's body" around age 12, because the friend I was in love with said she wouldn't be with me because I was female, and the more I said it, the more I believed it.

I remember being resentful that I wasn't allowed to participate in wrestling in middle school, because they "didn't have enough girls for a different team" and it would be "inappropriate" for me to wrestle with boys. I hated having to wait until I was a junior in hs to play football, and only the 'powder puff' version, which meant a single game. As an actor, I made it a point to go after the male roles, one of which was designed to limit the physicality of my role by putting me in a constricting pencil skirt, instead of the slacks that would have allowed me to jump onto the stage in a single bound. I also played the 'Stage Manager' in Our Town; I digress.

Even after I started IDing as male, I didn't come out until a "friend" sexually assaulted me during a private dance (which I was obligated to do, as it meant the dancer would get paid double, and I wasn't gonna leave her hanging) and the bouncer gave him the tape - it was 'his birthday present to himself'. The last time I saw him, he bragged about jerking off to it still.

1. Yes - the first time, I was younger than two.
2. The memory is gone, but the video tape of my second birthday confirms the assault.
3. No resources, other than NLP.
4. Definitely influenced me to perform toxic masculinity and claim I wasn't a girl.

The one place on the Internet where women are allowed to express their exasperation for the opposite sex, and you take it as hating men? Do you tone police POC when they don’t take white feelings into account when describing their frustration with systemic oppression, as well? FFS...

I’m sorry that accepting I would never be able to afford to transition and living my life from one gender euphoric moment of being read as a man from behind every few years or so due to actively obscuring my sex with clothes and affectation of movement, saying “I wish I were a man” multiple times a day, being rejected from romantic relationships because I was the wrong sex, entering sex work because of the movie ‘The Hot Chick’ (in part) making it look like the logical choice for a man trapped in a woman’s body, and thinking I was completely alone for nearly two decades doesn’t make me trans enough to decry abuse and sigh in relief that I snapped out of it in time.

Gatekeeping truscum piss me off. I live in Iowa - the only people who are on T are rich kids who are still on their parents’ health insurance.

A lot of affirmations that claim to be NLP Certified are not - basically, like the absolute value sign in math doesn't "see" negative numbers, the brain doesn't hear the word "not". So, if you were to say "I'm not afraid of being alone at night," your brain hears, "I'm afraid..." For this reason, I recommend writing your own statements instead of listening pre-recorded ones, unless you listen all the way through and know they check out.