Capitan

I was part of the original subreddit 2-3 (?) months before it was banned. JK Rowlings comments about women being called menstruators made me look into what was going on, specifically because of the hate she was getting.

In some ways I consider myself to be your average, normal everyday person with a life and a job who does not frequent twitter or tumblr obsessively and who as a result isn’t up-to-date on all the Orwellian lingo. And there’s SO much lingo! They/them? What? Girl dick? Huh? It’s confusing to someone who is not part of that box. But like most people, I ignored what was going on because I thought trans activists were fighting for basic human rights, like the LGB people had done before them. What I didn’t know was included in those rights was that MtF could have access to ALL women spaces, including shelters and that you could APPARENTLY now identify yourself as a woman without even transitioning, which means that dudes can simply say that they identify as women and gain access anywhere and no one can say anything out of fear of being ostracised or worse, losing their job. Then of course there’s the denial of biological sex and complete policing of language. The odd thing is that I’m not wholly unfamiliar with this kind of policing of language, thoughts and silencing methods, because I’ve seen cults use it repeatedly. Yet I missed it with TRA. Perhaps I didn’t want to believe it, but with what happened with JK Rowling and then the banning of Gendercritical on Reddit and leaving a bunch of other misogynistic subreddits up...I guess I “peaked.”

It’s been an interesting few months. I went from your average normal person with no particular awareness of what was going on to suddenly realising that a small group had managed to gain the upper hand in a way that can genuinely harm women, not to mention those within the LGB group themselves. No longer being allowed to date someone with your preferred genitalia because of transphobia? Yikes.