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hey TERFs - no one is getting top surgery at 12

why are yall so comfortable with LIARS?

hey TERFs - no one is getting top surgery at 12

why are yall so comfortable with LIARS?

The ways I see other trans women rationalise a material disconnect between us and cis men in our brains, mentalities, formative experiences, largely fall into two categories: literal magical thinking, that such a thing exists as a male and a female soul and that trans women are female souls born in AMAB bodies, or a discussion of upbringing and socialisation.

Now, 'Socialised male' is an ugly talking point I associate with TERFs trying to downplay the existence of transmisogyny. Of course most trans women do not experience male privilege simply because of certain aspects of their childhood and upbringing. However, I cannot help but acknowledge certain qualities I had as a teen and young adult I have had to contend with. I was absolutely a misogynist as a teen, and engaged in behaviour that today would be called incel-ish.

In spite of this I would say that most of my childhood was otherisation in a way I look back on in retrospect as degendering. My life was a contradiction, since my biology had me forcibly grouped in with boys, but my external characteristics had me continually bullied as effeminate. I was outcast by either group. I did not know what I was, as no one could tell me.

Now this is certainly a classic story that I'm sure most trans women relate to, but I don't believe it is one unique to us. One that we have a monopoly on. I knew disabled or autistic boys who went through everything I did but worse. Other boys who would grow up to find they were some form of queer. Non-white boys. Poor boys (Not that any of us were rich, but some were certainly poorer than others.) Simply any boy who broke the norm in some way. I will never hate men because men are not a monolith. There is no trait universally shared by men besides the arbitrarily applied social label of "Man", which I myself share in many aspects. I would certainly say there is a particular type of man I dislike, but it is one difficult to define beyond saying "Misogynistic and otherwise privileged."

The user "was a man" (still is).

The user then goes on to describe male socialization and follow by directly saying it doesn't exist because it's "terfy"

And then describes a bunch of ways that male socialization punishes all non conforming males.

The ways I see other trans women rationalise a material disconnect between us and cis men in our brains, mentalities, formative experiences, largely fall into two categories: literal magical thinking, that such a thing exists as a male and a female soul and that trans women are female souls born in AMAB bodies, or a discussion of upbringing and socialisation.

Now, 'Socialised male' is an ugly talking point I associate with TERFs trying to downplay the existence of transmisogyny. Of course most trans women do not experience male privilege simply because of certain aspects of their childhood and upbringing. However, I cannot help but acknowledge certain qualities I had as a teen and young adult I have had to contend with. I was absolutely a misogynist as a teen, and engaged in behaviour that today would be called incel-ish.

In spite of this I would say that most of my childhood was otherisation in a way I look back on in retrospect as degendering. My life was a contradiction, since my biology had me forcibly grouped in with boys, but my external characteristics had me continually bullied as effeminate. I was outcast by either group. I did not know what I was, as no one could tell me.

Now this is certainly a classic story that I'm sure most trans women relate to, but I don't believe it is one unique to us. One that we have a monopoly on. I knew disabled or autistic boys who went through everything I did but worse. Other boys who would grow up to find they were some form of queer. Non-white boys. Poor boys (Not that any of us were rich, but some were certainly poorer than others.) Simply any boy who broke the norm in some way. I will never hate men because men are not a monolith. There is no trait universally shared by men besides the arbitrarily applied social label of "Man", which I myself share in many aspects. I would certainly say there is a particular type of man I dislike, but it is one difficult to define beyond saying "Misogynistic and otherwise privileged."

The user "was a man" (still is).

The user then goes on to describe male socialization and follow by directly saying it doesn't exist because it's "terfy"

And then describes a bunch of ways that male socialization punishes all non conforming males.

"This trans woman is advocating for other trans women to use women bathrooms and post selfies of them inside"

So much for stealth. It is wild seeing the cultural shift from when I was younger. When I was transitioning the goal of transition was to seemingly blend in and not draw attention. Not that it makes it okay to use opposite sex facilities, but it's incredible how quickly the shift happened and dropped that the moment an inch was given.

For most social media pages, if you send someone a link it leaves a trail back to the account who sent it, most sites this trail is invisible but Facebook will pop this up and tell you.

If you want to be anonymous online look up how to remove the account part of the share link for whichever site you are sending.

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I can get your first two questions out of the way very quickly. I hate Charlie kirk, I honestly think the world is a far better place with him gone. But I will always fight for his right to say things even things I consider deeply wrong. I don't believe as a society we should give into vigilante justice. And yes I have spoken out extensively on behalf of murdered black people(among others) and have gone to protests, rallies, etc.

As to the cult section.

I'll start by saying there is no one singular definition of a cult, or cult behavior. What you may call a cult I may not. I tend to base my understandings of cults and cult like behavior on the work of Dr. Steven Hassan, I would recommend his book "combating cult mind control" very highly. He's an expert in cults who has also become increasingly critical and wary of the trans community.

Particularly his BITE model can be used for analysis of cult behavior.

There are a number of ways that the trans community exacts these principles. One of these ways is by weaponizing social ostracization, those in the community are under constant threat to tow the line or they are branded terfs, which is a boogyman(another cult strategy), you'll see this often happen to transmascs(females) who step out of line, and are often told they are terfs waiting to happen just to keep them down.

The use of false information and the way the community attacks sources that don't use trans language even if those sources are not anti trans(such as the book Galileo's Middle Finger) or even the Cass report. On the flip side the promote extremely dubious sources(such as the 1% study) endlessly even when the evidence is little to none.

Speaking of suicide, under thought control is the notion that every trans person who doesn't transition is almost destined for it, that if we don't allow a trans person to transition or follow trans ideology they will die(this is false, in fact trans people retain higher self mortality even post transition).

The community uses thought stopping cliches such as "trans women are women", essentially meaningless statements that can be said over and over in place of reason.

I could go on and on but you probably get the idea.

Since you seem open I'd ask you to do a thought exercise. Go through the above list of techniques(if you need to look up what one is, do so) and ask yourself how it could be applied to the trans community, don't even question if it could, just find a way for each one hypothetically.