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TERFs don't recruit by right out the gate going "trans women are perverted men who want to gain access to women's spaces to rape women and girls, and trans men are just poor confused lesbians brainwashed by the transgender agenda into mutilating their bodies." If they did that, they would never recruit anyone. No, they start small. First they start with very normal feminist talking points then, as they get you listening, they start turning up the heat a little bit. They build up to it, they get you to agree with them at first and then trick you into continuing to think they're reasonable. Believe me, I have seen this happen. I have seen TERFs literally discussing the efficacy of this method in getting young people to join them- the medium they specified was Pinterest, which is where I've seen this happening the most. They prey on people who don't know what to watch out for, get them agreeing, and then start getting more and more radical until the victim is agreeing with genuinely heinous shit. That's how they do this. I've seen it before, I nearly fell down this rabbit hole before. I know where this starts.

And what I am seeing from transandrophobes mirrors that exactly.

It starts the same, similar talking points and everything- literally I have seen TRFs using TERF rhetoric either word-for-word or nearly so. The talking points used to recruit people into this are almost the same, just trans-inclusive. And then it starts building up. I've seen people falling down this rabbit hole in real time and let me tell you, it almost never starts with "forcefem all transmascs," it's always something that's easily agreeable, trans men not belonging here or there, transandrophobia not being a thing because androphobia isn't a thing, "basic feminism-" it starts small. And then it starts building. And next thing you know you've got someone agreeing with "bomb that kills all trans men." It's exactly the same.

It starts the same. You get someone agreeing with mild stuff, then you build up until they're agreeing with major stuff. It's classic extremist tactic, and seeing something like this in any movement is a massive red flag. I am seeing it in people becoming hateful towards trans men and transmascs. This is how TERFs recruit, it's how cults recruit, it's how extremist groups recruit, and now it's how transandrophobes are recruiting.