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[–]emissch 29 insightful - 3 fun29 insightful - 2 fun30 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Before peaking (B.P.) - I was neutral to mildly supportive of TRA. A couple view points I had:

  • I thought trans was about the same thing as a sexual orientation where the movement had similar goals and objectives to LGB and should be considered as the same

  • I thought conservatives were all up in arms over nothing due to bigotry/homophobia regarding that bathroom bill in North Carolina a few years ago. I thought what's the big deal with bathrooms if they just want to pee and leave?

  • I thought all transwomen were essentially gay men, just like in Orange is the New black, right?! What's wrong with transwomen in women's prisons if they are just like Laverne Cox!

  • I had a live and let live libertarian approach to trans. "I don't really give a shit what you do" etc

After Peaking (A.P.) - these were my following realizations:

  • Autogynephilia, "transbians" and the cotton ceiling. Learning about these things (I think it was cotton ceiling first) truly threw me for a loop and made me rethink the whole thing. I think I went from viewing TIMs as nonthreatening gay guys to horny straight dudes who want to invade women's spaces for sexual gratification. If only more female TRAs realized this. they would start viewing these men as the threats they inherently are.

  • TIMs in women's sports, Joe Rogan and the Fallon Fox fiasco. Joe Rogan actually caused me to peak when he went on a well reasoned rant about Fallon Fox breaking the skull of a woman during a fight and not disclosing he was a male.

  • the fact that trans "feelings" of being a woman is born from the most shallow and offensive stereotypes of women.

  • Stories of parents medically transing kids or "influencing" gay kids into being trans. The obvious homophobia of that caused me to peak once again.

  • the over the top language policing, death threats, authoritarian behavior and hyperbolic drama "misgendering is literal violence!!1"

I'm sure there are more but these are just off the top of my head.