One of the most powerful threads on the old gender critical reddit site was the one where new members described how they first became aware of the threat that the cult of transgenderism poses to the rights and safety of women and children.
It was fascinating to read the many and varied journeys that different people took to reach the same place. So many different stories, with several recurring themes. Nearly everyone started out defending the rights of transsexuals, angry at what they perceived as the bigoted hatred of the right wing, homophobic, religious transphobes and their pearl clutching terven acolytes, devoted to inciting violence against the most oppressed people imaginable, and dedicated to denying transsexuals their most basic human rights, the right to exist.
In many ways it reminded me of our own Transwidows support threads, all those different experiences, yet such a surprising number of similarities. Also, how eye opening it was to read all those different experiences, truly educational i.e. capable of uprooting lazy assumptions, and changing peoples minds.
I think that thread was probably the main reason that the gendercritical subreddit got banned, despite their never having broken any of the administrative rules. 65 thousand people found it and joined the sub, and their numbers were growing even more quickly after ordinary people went to check for themselves what vile transphobic abuse JK Rowling had been spouting, only to find they agreed with every word she wrote. Many of them were young lesbians, and their stories were particularly poignant.
Every day there'd be another new person, introducing themselves and mentioning that they'd found the sub while searching the internet for information about JKRs transphobic crimes, and how relieved they were to realise that they weren't alone, that other people had seen the same patterns and reached the same conclusions. That there were other decent people out there who felt the same way, when they'd assumed they were completely isolated.
Which is why it's such a massive relief to see that the moderators on the new site have reestablished the thread, and many new posts have already been added. It is growing every day and is well worth keeping an eye on.
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Stealhsquirrelnutkin · 11/07/2020 22:30
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