I think a lot of yall will hear a trans person talking about a legitimate experience and respond like "uhh isnt that a terf talking point š¤Ø" without having the critical thought to know WHY its harmful when terfs talk about it.
like I just saw a transmasc who drew a short comic about reading BL as a teenager and thinking "wow I wish I was a gay man too" and growing up to be a trans man. and a reply said "isnt this a terf talking point"
no. its not. the terf talking point is that straight girls pretend to be gay men to fetishize them as a form of autoandrophilia. or that exposure to gay male relationships or trans men will groom little girls into wanting to be gay men. that is an extremely harmful view because it deligitimizes a trans man's existence. but plenty of trans men DO grow up reading MLM/gay media and BL and do grow attached to it, because they are seeing themselves. even before you know who you are, you will be drawn to who you want to be. transfem lesbians also become attached to WLW media before transition and are also treated like creeps and fetishists. but they are just young gay kids seeing their true selves reflected back at them. terfs see these kinds of common phenomena that happen all the time in the trans community and try to explain it away with bigotry and hateful stories. and then they talk about it so fucking much that it confuses people and before you know it you got trans people sharing their real lives and being accused of spreading terf talking points from people who never think about anything.





















