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[–]Ferngully[S] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I go to these places online (saidit included) looking for answers and truth, but I feel close to giving up.... at least giving up Reddit, which is where I can find the most TRA discourse. I don’t understand Twitter, and don’t do Facebook or anything like that.

All actual discussion of this question even by trans people got downvotes. If the answer wasn’t a solid “yes” it got downvoted. And then when the person tried to defend their views it was more downvotes, and vitriol. I know as an avid redditor who has never had posts go “viral” down votes scare me. I barely have enough “karma” to matter, so it’s actually... valuable to me... idk that sounds stupid but whatever.

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    [–]Shesstealthy 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I feel like so much of this is, in some cases, a reaction to anti-racist and feminist politics. Many people feel like victims though the stats don't support their feelings. So instead of being a reviled white woman, killing black men with her misplaced tears, one can be a genderqueer demiboy and immediately claim marginalisation. As a marginalised person one can again confidently centre oneself in all discussions.

    Similarly transcels think that if they're "strong independent lesbian women" rather than cis white men they get permission to neckbeard aggressively all over the place without being chastised