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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[–]Chewedanddigested 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I remember first being introduced to gender critical feminism and being in complete agreement with the push back against gender essentialism but thinking everything else was going too far because I couldn’t imagine that liberal feminists and TRAs were actually saying all that crazy stuff. Like lesbians not wanting to date transwomen was transphobic. Or you don’t need dysphoria to be trans. Or sex isn’t real. Or “there’s debate about whether trans women were born male”. It sounded like strawmen that were too out there to be real.

It turns out that it’s all true though! In the last two weeks since the first reddit ban, I’ve seen multiple examples of every statement above, and not in fringe spaces either.

[–]Wrencer 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Honestly, I've always said that I wasn't GC and that I was pro trans rights, but even acknowledging that trans women are women and that I wouldn't mind dating trans ppl don't change their opinions about me being a "terf". Because I post on true bisexuals, because I say that sex is real, that lesbians don't suck dick, that ppl not dating trans ppl is their CHOICE and should be respected.

They are literally getting rid of cis bi and lesbian women on LGBT online spaces. Because if you forgot to include trans folks in your post, you're a bigot or you are "obsessed with genitals" lol.

It's crazy that reddit stands for TRA, whereas they only make for 0,6% of the USA population

I also thought that trans women saying that not dating them is transphobic was a terf myth, yet I witnessed it today, and everyone disagreeing gets called a bigot and phobe, or ppl are tiptoeing around their precious feelings. It honestly reminded me of the behaviour of certain men irl.