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[–]ThrowMeAway2879 26 insightful - 1 fun26 insightful - 0 fun27 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I was a supporter of trans rights, mostly unquestioning. TWAW and TMAM just seemed like innocuous social support statements.

My support for the TQ+ ended somewhere around 2015 when the Emmerich movie 'Stonewall' was released and the TQ+ absolutely destroyed it with their false "it was a trans woman that threw the first stone!"-narrative. You didn't even have to like the movie (Emmerich isn't really a character-driven director and probably wasn't the best man for the job), but the misinformation campaign was so blatant, disingenuous and honestly hostile to gay men and lesbians, that it was an eye-opener. They'd rather destroy a fairly innocent movie about a landmark gay event, directed by an A-list director, produced by an A-list movie company, marketed to the mass audience, than to let go of their trans-washing of history. It galled me.

Around the same time the "It's not transphobic to not date trans people, BUT..."-argument started popping up around the internet and it was then that I was just done.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That argument also seemed to only point at LGB people, telling them they had genital fetishes. It never seemed to include straight people until recently, and you've seen what happens when they threaten them.