I've been over the peak for a while, but since this is a new space I'll share.

The Women's March and the pussy hats.

I'll say I was never very TRAish. Discrimination in medicine and pregnancy/motherhood have always been my pet causes within feminism and it's hard to separate that from biology. But I did think that trans people were this small, niche group of mentally ill people who were just trying to get by. And even when I did see some nonsense about how "TWs are biologically female" I assumed it was some dumb Tumblr teen thing and I figured they'd grow out of it. Because it is just insane! It's so obviously not true I didn't register it as a threat. Maybe I was always "peaked" just unenlightened about the depth of the whole movement. From the first time I heard a story about a man knowing he was a woman because he played with Barbies I couldn't shake the feeling of sexism, but again, mental illness isn't rational and anyway it's not like other men aren't sexist. Anyway...

/2016. A disgusting, oafish, idiot misogynistic narcissist was elected the president over a woman (feelings about her aside, there was a lot of emotion about the first woman president at the time). It was bleak times. Women were angry. Enter the Women's March. I was a little cynical about it at first if I'm honest, but then I saw the waves of pink worldwide. For the first time, women were coming together to celebrate being women. It was pretty touching. Especially because of how depressed I was about the election. But look, here are the women of the world coming together to remind everyone we are here and we have power. "Pussy hats" because of the words of the actual elected president.

Yeah, that couldn't last though. No one wants to see women showing how powerful they are. So all of my "women-friendly" hobby groups started drawing lines in the sand. Pussy hats were transphobic. Talking about abortion or periods in regards to women was transphobic. What? WHAT? Obviously the "pussy" comment was about women? Trump wasn't talking about grabbing TIMs by the girldick? And wait, girl dick? You don't even need to medically transition or even want to transition to be trans? Lesbians are bigots for being lesbians? What is happening? You don't even need to BE DYSPHORIC? Being "cis" is a privilege. You are trying to CALL ME PRIVILEGED for being FEMALE? Kids know their GENDER AT AGE 3? PUBERTY BLOCKERS?

I finally decided to Google "TERF" because of how many people saying completely reasonable things being called out as one. I finally found where all the sane feminists went and haven't looked back.