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[–]julesburm1891 40 insightful - 2 fun40 insightful - 1 fun41 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

So, I fundamentally disagree with probably 99% of things said on trans subs. You know what I don’t do? Brigade them and demand they fall in line with my views or get banned. I don’t do that with old school homophobes either. Why? Because it’s fucking crazy and futile to demand the whole world constantly bow to your opinion. Have your own spaces for your worldview, but don’t shut down spaces for those who disagree OR spaces for everyone to voice their opinions.

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 30 insightful - 3 fun30 insightful - 2 fun31 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

There’s no point in brigading them and downvoting or whatever else brigaders do. They literally are their own worst enemy. All you have to do to convince others of our point is to have them actively looking at what trans people are saying in their own spaces. Pretty much all of us were peaked by TRA trans people themselves, not by the dreaded TERFs because quite frankly this shit is too whacky to believe until you see it for yourself. And because they never made any sense in the first place and we just had our minds too open, a switch goes off in everyone that makes the drop-off after the peaking rather extreme.

[–]reluctant_commenter 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Pretty much all of us were peaked by TRA trans people themselves

Exactly. One of the biggest reasons I initially was shocked by the transgender movement is because I opened up Tumblr, searched "lesbians" in the search bar, and came up with a bunch of posts saying "TERFs kill yourself" and "TERFs die" and massive support for those messages. I don't believe in telling anybody to kill themselves... so that's when I figured the transgender rights movement had to be wrong about something at least. And that was the beginning.

[–]barnarnasis this tv show my friend? 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My peaking started with tumblr too. I had followed someone "terfy" without knowing which lead to me hate-reading their blog and then not hate-reading as I realized terfs weren't the enemy they were made out to be. Unfortunately, the person behind the blog has since made a complete 180 and I had to unfollow because they kept posting TWAW and other stuff like that.

[–]IridescentAnacondastrictly dickly 19 insightful - 10 fun19 insightful - 9 fun20 insightful - 10 fun -  (0 children)

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