Wow – a trans person with common sense that is brave enough to be critical of TRAs and their lapses in logic

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[–]luckystar 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Rose of Dawn is based af (I never use that term but she does and it seems appropriate here). Maybe an unpopular opinion here but people like her, Blaire White, Buck Angel, and a close friend of mine who is a post op trans woman are the reason why I'll never go full on TERF. Are they literally the sex of their gender identity? No, obviously not. But to me they are individuals struggling with a serious medical mental condition (gender dysphoria), for which the best treatment currently available is transition. Therapy and other treatments don't work so far; if they did I think that would be a better option as it's certainly easier, but transition is the best we can do. I have no beef with these people, especially if they're post op (I think Rose is?), I just don't view them as a threat the way I do with the anime avatar girldick uwus.

The problem is that the actual rate of occurrence of gender dysphoria is something like 0.1% of the population, but the rate of being a: fetishist, transvestite, drag queen/king, weeaboo, not-like-the-other-girls snowflake, person with autism who just doesn't understand gender roles, etc is MUCH higher. In my view, the problem isn't true transsexual people, it's the trans activists who aren't even really trans, but rather appropriating the medical condition of a tiny minority in order to further their own purposes (narcissism, fetish, oppression points) and harm others (women, LGB) with no regard for the fact that they are deeply damaging the image of trans people.

That's why they have such a strong push to demedicalize being trans, because a proper psychologist would easily recognize them for what they are (fetishists and attention seekers). This push ultimately really hurts people like Rose of Dawn and Blaire White by making it harder for them to access treatment. But these narcissists dgaf, they're just giddy that they think they've found a shield for their bad behavior by appropriating a minority.

[–]mangosplums 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I completely agree. My problem is with the self-ID demands of the trans movement. I don't have any problem with people who've had real persistent body dysphoria their whole lives, who are respectful of women/girls and who have no real mental issues, other than their being trans, if you consider that a mental issue. The problem is this insistence that there needs to be zero gate-keeping and that everyone who IDs as the sex opposite to what they were born with is equally legitimate. So someone who has a history of sexual assault, harassment and violence towards women, who has no actual body dysphoria or intent to change their body, and who has a history of serious mental illness is considered just as legitimate as someone who has real, persistent body dysphoria, who's fully transitioned, has no psychological conditions and is respectful to everyone. The fact that these first types of people exist and we are being forced to accept them into women's locker rooms, lesbian groups etc really harms the people who are truly trans and of course women as well. The fact that every story of the first group of people is being removed, deleted off the internet and bullied into silence, and there's a campaign to ostracize and attack anyone who talks about it, and this insistence that "this never actually happens" is going on is very similar to censorship that authoritarian regimes engage in. It's very disturbing.