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No problem! I'm very happy to help however I can. Detransitioner and desister testimonials should be one of the last stages IMO because of how hated we are by TRAs. We're a direct contradiction to everything they stand for so they fight to silence us at every opportunity in a very specific way. Many spaces like r/detrans are always on thin ice and always being threatened with the ban hammer. So until we get a buffer of support, so to speak, we risk putting those spaces in even more danger.

TRAs got so much support by performing their activism in stages, so I think we should do something similar. "It's not what you say, but how you say it." Even if we are right in saying TRAs operate like cults, humans can't change sex, and gender identity doesn't override sexual orientation, those statements will come off as too radical at the moment. We would only be giving them more ammo to deplatform us.

We need to start with something simple and easy to understand if we want to dismantle gender identity politics. "You can wear makeup and it won't make you less of a man/wearing short hair and blazers doesn't make you less of a woman" are such statements that appeal to people's common sense while not stepping on anyone's toes. If we start there, then the rest of the dominos will naturally fall into place. Because if more people understand that there's no one way to be a man or a woman then it follows that identifying out of your 'gender' so you can do those things makes no sense.