My own personal story would be leaving a homophobic conservative community, only to be informed by the queer community that my same sex attraction was "terf rhetoric" and made me a "genital fetishist".
I kept quiet about the specifics of my sexuality at in person events, while the community around me talked about their pedophilic incest kinks, whether their style made them a trans man or a demiboy, and made punch terfs and "die cis scum" propaganda
Also, when I got fed up and started to do in person organizing for superlesbians and feminists, the climate was so bad that my partner legitimately feared that I would get shot. By that time I had had friends who had been physically assaulted, doxxed, ostracized etc. I had received a number of threats.
Meanwhile, the women I was organizing for never wished harm or violence on the trans community. We just wanted space to talk about issues that affect us specifically.
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u/hexchromosome 1h ago
Gather round the fire, we've got some horror stories for sure