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[–]venecia 32 insightful - 1 fun32 insightful - 0 fun33 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

  1. It shuts people up. The less dissent you allow, the less other people will see. They were born male and are used to using their privilege to become the ultimate authorities. There are also aggregators like Russia involved.

  2. The male-led pharmaceutical companies and for-profit healthcare in the USA is also incentivized to keep people from thinking too hard about whether they need to transition.

  3. When your identity is literally based off other people's words and positive validation from the community you ''belong'' to, they literally DO feel like taking that away from them is hateful. That's how entitlement and a need for validation works. If they were so confident in their womanhood, nothing anyone says could take that from them and they could handle dissent.

oh and

  1. They can always pull the ''It'll be your fault if I kill myself'' - quoth every single abusive man when you try to leave, ever

[–]TheSeventhSense[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yup you put it perfectly, they tied their mental well being directly with constant validation from others. It's funny how normally that behavior is discouraged from mental health professionals and rightfully seen as unhealthy but when it's TiMs doing it the whole world needs to bend over backwards for their emotional well being. Ridiculous and exhausting.