All: Why do you think the "other side" believes what they do?

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For GC: what do you think leads someone to becoming QT or a TRA?

Environment, mostly. This is a very new movement, but it's been pushed heavily over the past 5 years. Especially for young people in liberal towns and cities. I think a lot of it is motivated by liberalism, sympathy, and wanting to be on the right side of history. It's the same way a lot of GC people started out. We wanted to be nice, we wanted a struggling, marginalized community to feel accepted and included. Those are good motivations.

Do you think QTers/TRAs are always homophobic/misogynistic?

Not at all, and certainly not in ways that they would recognize. I feel like a lot of casual TRAs are ignorant of the darker things that are happening as a result of the trans movement. They are cheerleading because they genuinely believe it's morally right and they have seen no homophobia or misogyny. Now there are of course also some "true believers" who know the darker things and dismiss them or even promote them. But I feel like the majority of TRAs are happily ignorant and tribal and thus bow to liberal feminist authorities. They won't listen to us because they've been told we're bigots who want trans people dead.