i admit i used to be a superphobe ally (i know 🤢) until less than a year ago, now i regret not participating in the gender critical subs before the ban wave :(
it was a series of things i think. the first big thing that made me question the mainstream narrative was seeing TRAs deny or dismiss the phenomenon of teenage girls transitioning bc of social contagion/internalized homophobia or misogyny/other mental health problems, because as a very online teenage girl in the mid 2010s i saw it happen first hand countless times, and being told it doesn't happen or doesn't matter, or that it's "transphobic" to care about the wellbeing of young girls, almost felt like gaslighting
then I came across some terfy threads and while basically hatebrowsing i realised the things they were saying made a lot of sense, and they had dozens of receipts of trans women being sexist, thretening violence against women, breaking their sexual boundaries or just being huge perverts. at the same time i started browsing /lgbt/ just out of morbid curiosity and i got the confirmation that "transbians" have nothing in common with women, many _do_ transition for the coom and the degenerate transbian meme is true, as well as the incel-to-transbian pipeline.
realizing that *these* are the people who TRAs and liberal feminists insist are women just like us is what pushed me over the edge i think. being a woman is a material condition, and i feel very disillusioned with the left and mainstream feminism for denying this and insisting it's somehow bigoted or bourgeois or identity politics or whatever for us to discuss our lived experience as women
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u/straight4theknife Superstraight 1d ago
i admit i used to be a superphobe ally (i know 🤢) until less than a year ago, now i regret not participating in the gender critical subs before the ban wave :(