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Phobia indoctrination instills irrational fears in members of a high-control group and uses those fears to manipulate members so they won’t question the group’s beliefs or try to leave. Here’s what phobia indoctrination looks like in the trans community:

Telling community members that anyone who questions gender identity or transition (even if from a place of genuine care and concern) hates them, ‘denies their existence,’ or even wants them dead. 

Pushing community members, especially naive children/young people, to cut themselves off from friends & loved ones who may question or contradict the trans community, or may simply fail to follow elaborate and bizarre protocols trans communities lead young members to expect. 

Creating the false impression of a trans murder epidemic, which binds members to the trans community & increases their fear of the outside world out of all proportion to actual risk.

Inflating suicide risk & presenting transition as the only alternative to suicide when it comes to dealing with gender dysphoria. This increases desperation to transition, suppresses questions or doubts a person may have, & pushes patients to conceal other issues from doctors.

Vilifying and attacking detransitioners as traitors and existential threats to the community, thus demonstrating to current members of the trans community *exactly what will happen to them* if they step out of line or—god forbid—leave.

Teaching community members to bury their own questions and doubts by labeling any uncertainty about gender identity, transition, or community dynamics as manifestations of “internalized transphobia” that cause harm not just to the individual but to ALL TRANS PEOPLE.

When we say “this space is for women and nonbinary people” they get mad because nonbinary people aren’t woman-lite!!1!11

When we say “this space is for female people” they get mad because that’s bioessentialism for some reason

When we say “this space is for those assigned female at birth” yeah you guessed it. Still bioessentialism. Yeah acknowledging that female human beings exist at all is bioessentialism actually.

how bout we bring this bad boy back? as a designer, the black/brown/trans stripes are fuck-ugly and very well intended but misguided.

gilbert baker also added a lavender stripe before his death to represent diversity that’s actually aesthetically well-reasoned:

How come instead of just flying actual BLM and black power stuff alongside the rainbow, we just tossed a brown and black stripe over the rainbow? I'll put the raised fist next to my rainbow happily because, idk, maybe I'm able to value them without swallowing their movement into mine.

Why did nobody add anything for disability advocation? Why didn't anyone add anything to support feminism? Why didn't we add anything to show we stood with the homeless LGB folks? If we could add the trans flag, the BLM colours, and the intersec flag, why didn't we add any of the stuff I mentioned?

He started off like you see above, just your average male anti-feminist:

Then of course he delved into defending BDSM, age play, and other extreme kinks:

Obviously porn addicted, he defends porn too:

Likely from his porn consumption becoming progressively weirder, he decides he’s actually a trans woman:

From here he begins to defend gender ideology because it now will benefit him as a trans woman. He switches from “anti-feminist” to “anti-terf”:

Isn’t it fascinating how quickly he did a 180 once he realized he could use liberal feminism to his advantage? Just look how he jumped on the bandwagon as soon as it became useful to him. This dude has obviously always wanted to shut down real feminist conversation, and now he’s found a socially acceptable way to go about it! Plus, he’s now granted immunity from criticism with his Trans status. Very clever!

LITERATURE SERIES: J.K Rowling (Harry Potter)

Womanhood goes deeper than aesthetics and gender roles. Finding joy in womanhood is finding connection and comfort and solidarity among people who have faced the same hardships in the same patriarchal world as you. It’s finding your voice and taking up space after years of being told you have to be small and quiet. It’s de-stigmatizing your body, finding worth and power in who you are without modification. It’s linking arms with the sisters society has told you are shallow and catty and emotional and worth less, and it’s realizing that the support and love you can find among other women is better than anything you’ll get from 99.999999% of men, no matter how happy they are about their gender role cosplays