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[–]szalinskikidproblematic androphile 20 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 0 fun21 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Hm not gonna lie, this sounds a bit like bait to me. Don't get me wrong, everything she says is true but she acts very self-reflected yet naive at the same time, so I don't quite believe that this is an "honest" question/confession. Maybe I'm too cynical, but I can't believe LGB people actually and honestly think like that about themselves. Anyway, she's holding up a mirror to TRAs, "allies" and the undecided, which is always very important. Because gender ideology IS absurd and regressive, a repackaged form of conservative homophobia.

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe I'm too cynical, but I can't believe LGB people actually and honestly think like that about themselves.

Sounds more optimistic than cynical to me. And yeah, this sounds like bait. In support of that that this looks like a burner account for a one time drive-by persuasion.

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

Maybe I'm too cynical, but I can't believe LGB people actually and honestly think like that about themselves.

Right here, checking in. I'm lesbian and I genuinely felt and believed this about myself, too, a few years ago, back when I first started admitting to myself that I might be lesbian.

I grew up with family members who had a sickening amount of hatred towards lesbian women, in particular. That, coupled with all the shaming posts I saw on Tumblr and other forms of social media that said that you're a horrible person if you're a lesbian who is grossed out by dick, and I felt even more horrible about being exclusively same-sex attraction. But eventually, my "solution" for it was to try to become "straight" via transitioning, rather than good old-fashioned conversion therapy. Same difference, in my opinion.