It's so funny to me that Reddit is claiming TERFs were brigading different women's subs (like r/PCOS and r/pregnancy) like there weren't radfems in those subs to begin with

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[–]materialrealityplz 67 insightful - 2 fun67 insightful - 1 fun68 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I had absolutely no problem with trans people before I found out they were denying biology and literally saying men could be females and lesbians had to give dick a go.

I found out about the shitstorm because of the abuse JKR received from them. I try not to dislike them, but it's very hard when so many of them are such abusive, reality denying fuckwits.

[–]SpatOuttheKoolaid 47 insightful - 1 fun47 insightful - 0 fun48 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Many of us didn't. I was very much a "live and let live" person, supporting individual trans people I'd meet....until I met the "butch transbian" (aka straight guy, male clothes, buzz cut but a "female/female" symbol necklace" who started ranting at me about how "all lesbians are transphobic" for not sleeping with him. Even then I thought it was an encounter with an isolated narcissist.....until I tried to "get more involved in the lesbian community" on the internet. Fast forward a year or two, and we have this. And I'm scrolling through social media feeds of straight woman after straight woman libfem ranting about JK Rowling and how transwomen are such poor victims, knowing the cancellation I'd face professionally and socially for saying anything.

[–]Wrencer 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah. Tbh, before joining Reddit's LGBT communities, I supported trans ppl unconditionally. Now that I'm questioning the narrative pushed on us, the "not dating trans women is transphobia" tweets posted by cis libfems women, well, I'm not so sure about unconditional support anymore.

[–][deleted] 27 insightful - 1 fun27 insightful - 0 fun28 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If I ever had a negative opinion of them, I definitely do NOW after these past two weeks!

[–]Marsupial 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They've done a good job trying to spread the idea that they're completely harmless to everybody else and just want to live in peace with their pronouns because they're simply people who feel they were born in the same gender. From that perspective- live and let live- it's difficult to object without seeming like a bigot. And I feel like many people haven't wised up to the fact that that's an oversimplification (true for some I'm sure but definitely not the TRAs) and that the trans community as a whole has much deeper issues than that. Personally from what I've seen from the T community and the more I see from it, I have a very difficult time not viewing transsexuality as either a mental illness or a fetish. And the whole JKR thing where I see people making the most ridiculous takes and plain making accusations up isn't doing anything to improve that.