I sort of stopped posting here because I realized through looking at a lot of anti-endo posts and making comics about it, I feel like a lot of them are cryptoTERFs or something similar.
Which I know seems like an out there conspiracy theory at first, and I know the response is going to be "stop comparing plurality to gender", but pushing away that intersectionality I think is making that issue worse and might be where this even came from in the first place. This was exactly how TERFs started to spread anti-ace, anti-bi, and whatever other exclusion they wanted to push - every single time they always find some way to dissuade people from looking too far into it.
A lot of trans people are plural. Trans plurals usually present gender in a way that isn't acceptable to those who are gender critical, and self-identified plurality as a whole involves breaking apart the status quo in a way conservatives don't approve of. Anti-endos as a group are already looking to take away the autonomy of identity and dignity of risk of other disabled people in a way that already teeters close to those ideals.
The obvious thing is anti-endos are word for word repeating transphobic rhetoric. They're calling people groomers or groomed in a way that parallels how transphobes talk about us. They're going "these people like you are too blame for you being wrong in your original label". They're going into inclusive spaces and accusing people those identities include of ruining their safe spaces.
Hell, the way they talk about why there shouldn't be intersectionality with trans experiences feels gender critical with the bit of "Being a system isn't compatible to an identity". While yes there is gender identity, any trans person can tell you there is so much more than that, in this context here it feels almost dismissive of how vast the trans experience is, and completely ignoring just how much trans and system community, even trans and DID, have overlapped in the past.
Many of them are new blogs too. This could go back into the CryptoTERF thing, or that so many of them are new to the community and being pushed into this rhetoric, and don't have the critical thinking skills to handle it.
The pattern is so blatantly there from every single queer exclusionist movement, with the only difference being this time it's about plurality. I've seen other trans people quietly acknowledge it, but no one in syscourse.
Fwiw, I think there's something similar going on with radqueers in the opposite direction. Anti-endos create a community that is hostile to self expression or deviation, then radqueers present a community for open self expression while also pushing people into more dangerous identities that can encourage abuse. (i.e. encouraging MAPs/incest/etc). For both cases it feels like between both pro-endos and anti-endos it's so easy for people to come in and take advantage of others.
And I don't know what to do about it. It feels like everyone is a victim here and I think the best way to fix it is just not be a fucking part of it.
