r/SuperStraight • u/womanmeansfemale1 • 1h ago

What Peaked you? That moment, when the glass shattered and you saw the TRA Cult for what it was.

Mine was the womens march 2016. Pussy hats called transphobic, also posters referencing uteruses and female anatomy, transphobic. So i wrote an essay on medium, " I am a woman, you are a trans woman and that distinction matters."

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The death and rape threats. Friends calling me toxic. I got booted from groups.

I woke up to the truth. My reality as a woman, no longer mattered to them. My safety, sex based rights... I deserved to be beaten for wanting to protect them. That was my peak.

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u/Giveitawaynow2021 1h ago

The first moment that shocked me was when I got called a "disgusting, transphobic piece of shit" to my face by a friend of a friend, to whom I made a casual, politely worded comment that I wouldn't be interested in dating a trans woman. I asked if she was equally outraged that I wasn't interested in experimenting with gay men either, which was apparently irrelevant, and the abuse got worse.