RantDoes anyone else feel isolated/depressed because of how taboo it is to talk about the transgender movement's homophobia?

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[–]Destresse🇨🇵 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I used to feel this way, but since then I've found a good number of lesbians/bi women from my country who are critical of the trans movement. So now my environment is way more gender critical than the other way around. It's only when I browse the internet that I see all the pro-trans stuff. And even then, YouTube only recommends gender critical stuff since that's what I've been watching lol. I don't have twitter/tumblr/instagram whatever other social network exists nowadays. So that helps avoiding it.

But I also don't frequent lesbian bars or lesbian events or anything, so I don't know the state of things in our irl community. I'm told things are relatively good, as long as you don't start a debate on the question lol.

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I used to feel this way, but since then I've found a good number of lesbians/bi women from my country who are critical of the trans movement.

That is super awesome :) I remember you telling me some about that in the past! Maybe that is the way to go, lol. If it were just people on the internet being stupid and I had more support from people I know IRL, it probably wouldn't bother me so much, but that isn't the case for me right now, unfortunately.

[–]Destresse🇨🇵 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Haha, yes. I jumped on every single occasion I found to join a french gender critical network of people 😆

I think it might be harder for you Americans, since your country is the size of a continent lol. I suppose it doesn't make it easy to find each other.

[–]julesburm1891 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think it might be harder for you Americans, since your country is the side of a continent

100%. Not only are we very large, our population distribution is incredibly spread out and uneven. (As in, the population of New York City alone is more than the combined populations of Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, Idaho, and Utah combined.) Compounding that, outside some places in the northeast and California, our big cities are spaced pretty far apart. (For example, I live in smaller city with around 300,000 people. Big city A is five hours from us. Big City B is 6 hours from us. The closest big cities to A and B are 4 and 6 hours, respectively.)

Gender critical people in NYC, LA, and Chicago (our three biggest cities) might be able to make connections, but it’s going to get increasingly difficult to make those connections the smaller you get. (None of this even takes into consideration that we’re hyper politically-divided and the left has made gender ideology a plank of their essences. A lot of people who agree with us aren’t going to say anything because they don’t want to sound “conservative.”)

[–]Elvira95Viva la figa 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Because USA is an union of several states rather than a country per se. And because of the bigness of population and geographic size, any big city is like a country on its own, and you need to live in one, to get all you need close to you, in terms of dating opportunities and finding like minded people. I think the only place where I would enjoy living there is New York city, which is full of italian-americans