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[–]medium_tomato 13 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I personally love this idea! As you said the title of the sub automatically pits one against the other. I think there is room for better discussion and I would love a place where TQs could ease into softly questioning the ideology instead of instantly being othered. There is definitely big possibilities here for both sides, since we have people like Blaire White speaking out against some of the toxic TRA ideology, as well as a lot of detrans people feeling like they can see both sides.

[–]jelliknight 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I agree. While I LOVE that in this space we are unapologetic and don't 'nicely' explain why we should have rights, there does also need to be a space for that. Those who don't want to deal with it don't have to. I had my own 'peak trans' discussion and I de-converted several other people since then. Reasoned, gentle discussion does work, but we tend to go pretty hard on newbies here, especially the guys. You do have to show people how to do better.