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[–]Confuzzled 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I actually feel there’s a spectrum of people on here, from people who don’t mind trans people but just want to critique certain aspects of the ideology, and people who really just hate trans people. I’m of the former, I’m really just in-between pro-trans and gender critical. I wish there was a community for people in-between. The reality is that there are a lot of nice trans people. They’re a group, with good ones and with bad ones. Don’t feel like you can’t be friends with them because they’re trans, if they’re awesome people, then be friends! You can critique the ideology while supporting your friends if they aren’t doing harm. I believe there are actually transgender individuals who experience great amounts of dysphoria so maybe I’m a minority in this forum.

My advice is step away from the more extreme side of GC. A lot of posts here vilify every single trans person and I just think that’s inaccurate and unhealthy. There ARE things to critique but hating on a whole group of people isn’t my style. Try to find a healthy balance of radfem and libfem opinions. You don’t have to be wholly one or the other.

[–]ImPiqued1111111[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is great advice, thanks. I tend to be on the harsher side of the critique, but I've been dealing with this nagging cognitive dissonance about actually, well, caring about individual people. Comments like this and others are helping me to snap out of that.