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[–][deleted] 14 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Remember when those old GPS systems used to say "recalibrating...recalibrating..." when you missed a turn?

Yeah, it seems everything has shifted dramatically again in the ~4 years or so when I really tried to understand transgender ideology and the community. Weirdly I never agreed with the unifying truscum tenet of needing dysphoria to be trans (like how I am going to know if any random trans person bothering everyone in the office has the requisite amount of dysphoria or not?), but I found them more likely to recognize their birth sex as a material reality, not insist they belong in anyone's dating pools, and not try to break down sex segregated spaces by brute force, though it was never a guarantee. If that has changed and I need to recalibrate, that's a shame.

[–]FrostyNugsI'm allergic to nuts 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Most of them support beliefs that have no basis in science. E.g. "I literally have a male brain in a female body, I was meant to be born male," "I am female and always have been, but I was assigned male at birth," and the belief that taking sex hormones to change fat distribution genuinely gives them a body of the opposite sex.

[–][deleted] 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I took a look at r/truscum, and yeah, you're right. It's not the more logical, biology-recognizing people that I remember, and it does just genuinely read as "not like the ~other~ trans." I genuinely don't see any difference between this and any other trans sub except sometimes they complain about other trans people.

[–]ChunkeeguyTeam T*RF Fuck Yeah[S] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They’re every bit as misogynistic as all the others for one thing.