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

I firmly believe that the people who buy into gender identity ideology and don't see the harms of modern transactivism are just not paying attention. It may be willful blindness, it may also be that a lot of liberal feminists, as you point out, are relatively exempt from the impact of transactivism. They likely don't compete in contact sport, they haven't been in prison, they don't utilize shelters or other services for marginalized women. They've taken sex-based rights and spaces for granted for so long that they've forgotten why we have them.

I'm sure there's an element of intimidation and moral cowardice as well. I mean, how does one interact with a person like Charles/Charlotte Clymer and think, 'this person is so oppressed and vulnerable'? There's a huge dependence on cognitive dissonance, and they're trying to get the rest of society to adopt it as well, under the guise of 'equality'.

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

I agree. Most of the eager supporters just tick all the boxes on the woke form. If you are against racism and sexism then you must be for trans rights or you lose your woke credit or must even think (gasp!) and figure out what you are going to do about women's rights clashing with trans demands.

And most people know nothing about this new world where we are vulva-owners so that 'trans women are women' can be literally true (which requires the decoupling of biological sex from gender altogether). They believe that transwomen are all post-surgery, very very few and very very oppressed, and ask what the harm might be in just being kind.