I called the customer service number and told them to shut down my account. The could’ve even chosen a transwoman like NikkiTutorials to do the podcast, because Nikki is actually a makeup artist.

I don’t take beauty advice from someone who “became a girl” 200 days ago and parodies the female identity. This is as insulting to normal transwomen as it is to women.

Edit: to the 150 likes: if you have an Ulta account and you feel strongly about this like I do, call customer service. They’ll delete your account for you because you can’t do it yourself. Don’t just stop shopping, have them lose people actively.

Also, it’s not just because it’s a trans person. It’s because it’s Dylan Mulvaney. If you listen to the interview, watch how they fetishize the female experience. Somehow Dylan gets to be a “mother”, but I’m a “birthing person”.

Enough is enough.

I’ve found a ton of ways to progressively fight this trend - for example, how are we going to say that gender is an “oppressive binary” and in the same breathe, tell a 5 year old girl she must be a boy because she likes trucks, or a boy that he’s a girl because he likes the color pink? I’ve been “GNC” long before there was a mainstream term for it. Girls can be girls outside the gender binary, same with boys. That doesn’t stop them from being male or female.

There is actually a very progressive approach to fighting this idea, considering much of this stuff tends to fall back on regressive stereotypes. If “feeling like a woman” means liking nail polish and perfume, that’s regressive to me.

I think people have really started conflating transition with the same as the plastic surgery movement. We condemn little girls for wanting BBLs and Boob Jobs and lipo if they’re girls, but we’re supposed to affirm their desires to want to look like twinks or anime characters.

The same thing goes for a lot of trans women. They want to be sexy anime girls. Many delude themselves into think estrogen is a miracle drug. And then they’re celebrated when they get the BBLs and the boob jobs and the lipo, and the trachea shaves and the FFS and the eye lifts- takes breath and the hair transplants and the- need I go on?

I wonder what it is about teen girls fetishizing (particularly gay) twinks. There has to be something here.

I feel this way a lot. I wish I could stop seeing it everywhere I go. I live in a super progressive city surrounded by rich college PhD types and Bolshevik Revolution larpers. The gender stuff seems like it’s everywhere. I wish I didn’t care about it so much. I wish it would just go away.

It’s like taking the “they live” glasses on and off. If you take them off, you may no longer “see” the aliens, but you know they’re there. You know when you’re staring gender ideology in the face, even in its most clever disguise.

But why? People on here have different beliefs and they’re allowed to, because expressing different beliefs is how we converse and challenge one another.

Many detrans people, or desisters, express that their views were never properly challenged which has led to harm. That’s why here we can have a discussion. And yes, sometimes that means reading harsher takes.

My personal opinion is that children can be gender nonconforming without the need of medical transition. Transition for minors is dangerous. Beta blockers prevent the production of hormones, which does not “pause puberty”, but it prevents adequate development of the whole body and the whole brain without pausing the aging process. So the whole body is developmentally behind. Perhaps it isn’t advisable that a twelve-year-old girl decide to remove her breasts far before they’ve developed. Perhaps children, who live in an age of online photoshopped models, need to heal and express their bodily discomforts in a way that doesn’t lead to their entire life being signed off to the pharmaceutical industry.

In order to think, you have to risk offending people. Social media has inflated both our sense of the importance of opinions, as well as made us think that our offense is as important.

Lastly, if this take was as harmful as it is, I point you to Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who lived her whole like with a munchausen-by-proxy having mother. I sense than in a decade, we’ll be seeing a lot more Gypsy-like stories (also that is her name, in case anyone takes offense to the word).

This is why I feel like non-binary is a dumb and regressive concept. It basically is “a third gender” now. If you don’t fit into “masculine” or “feminine” regressive stereotyping somehow you’re not a man or a woman. You have to be this “third thing” because gender is exactly that - stereotypes. My desist moment happened right when I realized that, no, the signs of my “gender fluidity” were not always present, I had just been a little girl who liked Legos and trucks. And no matter what I liked as an adult, I wasn’t a “boy” one day because I wanted to wear pants and a button up and a “girl” the next day cuz I put on my makeup and wore a skirt.

For being progressive, this shit is so backwards sometimes. I’m sorry you went through that.

Also, typical Starbucks barista behavior. I live in a major city and half of the baristas, literally half, at my local joint are trans or NB. I think it’s because Starbucks insurance covers transition.

It’s always this. It’s actually what made me leave the left.

“Nobody is doing double mastectomies on 12 year olds!” “Well here’s a phone call with a clinic stating otherwise..” “You have a problem with that?? You’re a BIGOT!”

“Teachers aren’t having kids change their gender!” “Oh here’s a teacher on TikTok bragging about her whole class slowly changing pronouns.” “So??? They’re just all trans kids!!”

And it goes on and on and on.

There will be hell to pay.

I’ll break it down like this: You specifically did not hurt any women by trying to transition unless you went out of your way to hurt or physically assault women. Which I am assuming you didn’t.

The movement that continuously tells women to be quiet in their own subjugation, which is the same movement that is hiding the truth from people like you about the risks and dangers of transition, is hurting women.

I do not believe the average trans woman is hurting women unless the trans woman is in favor of dismantling protections for biological women. The movement that wants to advance the dismantling of those protections hurts women. The people who buy into those talking points hurt women.

So do I think you alone hurt women solely by transitioning? No, again, unless you actually engaged in siding with policies that hurt women, or actually did go and hurt women. Unfortunately the current trajectory of the movement as a whole is what hurts women.

I don’t understand how anyone with a functioning brain doesn’t see that puberty blockers are not reversible. Let’s say they actually did “pause puberty”. So when you’re 16 are you gonna have the body of a 10 year old? The brain stops developing at 25, and puberty blockers don’t change that. You’ve effectively lost 6 years of brain development.

If puberty blockers worked the way the trans doctors want them to, we’d have literally discovered immortality.

I think it’s exaggerated, but usually gender dysphoria is comorbid with other issues. A lot of the times there’s OCD, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, sometimes it turns out to be body dysmorphia instead of gender dysphoria, and so on and so on. Sometimes those illnesses are exacerbated by environment and living conditions.

A lot of issues happen when you’re being sold the idea that a surgery or a hormone will make you happy, when in reality, those may help dysphoria, but not depression, anxiety, and the rest.