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[–]persistentlywoman 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

just past the intro and I'm already hooked. although I never identified as trans in any way, I was surrounded by people who did in my local LGBT community for close to twenty years and already I recognise so much of what she has said. this part especially punched me in the heart:

"It took another year after that to decide what I wanted to do with the knowledge I’d acquired from my experiences; relatively “inside” knowledge of what I now knew to be a deeply unhealthy community, full of wilful misinformation, emotional manipulation and phobia-inducing, medical malpractice, and widespread protection of rapists and sexual abusers."

yes. yes. completely in line with my experience of my local scene. one of the major contributing factors to my peaking was the crushing realisation how abusive and toxic so many prominent members of the community were, and they just keep getting away with it.