“As long as you remain *one of us* we will lovebomb you and tell you how valid and special you are and how you’re so brave and wonderful for identifying as trans, but the second you decide you no longer identify that way we will coldly shun you and demand you stay quiet” babe that’s a cult
Cults also operate by cutting people off from their families and support groups. That’s why alienating people from their families is such a big focus in the trans movement.
See, the concept of “found family” is not a new idea, nor is it inherently a bad thing. In the gay rights movement, there were of course a lot of people who were kicked out and disowned by their parents for being gay, and so there was an understanding that some people can’t rely on their families for support. Sometimes family can be toxic, and sometimes you really do have no choice but to cut them off.
HOWEVER, the focus in gay rights was always more about trying to make families more accepting of their gay relatives. Cutting off the family entirely was seen as a LAST RESORT when there were no other options.
With gender ideology, however, I’ve noticed there is WAY more of a fixation with straight up separating people from their families right away, telling people that any family member who doesn’t wholeheartedly buy into their new “identity” or is concerned about the transition is a bad person who can no longer be in that person’s life. They’re basically saying “hey kids, if your mom isn’t super on board with stopping your puberty and injecting you with hormones and giving you dangerous surgeries on your genitals, that means she hates you and wants you dead!”
It’s utterly ridiculous but that’s how cults work. They have to separate members from anyone who might step in and make them realize that the cult is bad for them. Members can’t have a family, because *THEY* are the new family now.
