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

The reality is that the gay (male) community needs to really step up its vocal support of women who are speaking out against this far more than it currently is. Women are perfectly capable of fighting for their own rights of course (women's suffrage is a testament to this), but the trans lobby wants to frame the women speaking out against the abuses of the trans movement as something like "bad feminism" or "bad lesbians", and claim that it's not representative of the LGB community. They benefit from using this as a wedge to frame lesbians who speak out against it as not being true members of the LGB community.

For everyone's benefit the sane members of the LGB community all need to speak out about these issues, because it signals that it's okay to be critical of the claims of the trans community, essentially helping to normalize it and showing that criticism of the trans community is far more widespread than they'd have you believe. For the sake of everyone being hurt by this (women, children, even the members of the trans community), we need to shift the power and attention away from the trans community, who want very badly to maintain control of the public discourse, and have so far been very successful despite being a minority (a very, very vocal and belligerent minority).