Feminist Current: I supported Trans ideology until I couldn't any more

It IS a cult. I've known people in (religious) cults. The inability to see clearly, to criticise what is right before your eyes, is exactly the same.
But the fact that she finally opened her eyes gives hope.

Yeps. She didn’t believe what women were sayin.

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If all else failed, I’d mention my PhD. Then, I would end the conversation, as I did not believe I needed to reflect upon this further. After all, I had federal law backing me. Clearly I was on the right side of history. And so, instead of listening, I kept climbing my personal peak, feeling more righteous the higher I went.

Shutting women up with her education qualifications

Well at least she has written it all out and has changed her views but still can’t believe that anyone despite how educated they are could believe the whole thing
Just weird

For me, what's slightly worrying is that the trigger was the ball waxer. The trigger was someone taking advantage of the ideology. Not the ideology itself.

Any grown-up would, surely, have already understood that advantage can be taken. It shouldn't have been a slow realisation.

Nonetheless, it's good that she's got the guts to set it all out, analyse it and publicise it.

The most convincing thing trans ideologues have is the existence of apparently 'trans' kids. I have to admit that gave me pause. I would never have accepted they were the opposite sex but as a mental condition it looked real.

I just did a cheeky back search, and sure enough, I argued with her back in 2018 when she was entrenched in TRA stuff!

Wow.

Like littlbrowndog, I don't understand why otherwise intelligent people have been sucked into this cult. I suppose some of them start off by thinking that maybe they don't understand the issue well enough, and it doesn't affect them anyway and they don't have time to research it.

I struggle to see how parents, teachers and medical professionals can be on board with it, though. It should be really obvious how harmful it is to children, by reinforcing gender stereotypes and medicating and mutilating them.

I knew her on Twitter when she was completely mired in the ideology. This was early 2017. I'm astounded, though very pleased that she's done a complete 180.

I just saw this on Twitter & came here to start a thread on it, but see it's already been done!

And I get what you're saying littlebrowndog but I think the conditioning has been SO strong on this issue that all kinds of otherwise really intelligent people have been sucked in - one woman I know, a midwife no less, is a loud & proud TRA ideologist, despite the evidence of her own eyes that it's only people with a particular body type (ie biologically female) she supports delivering babies day after day after day... I can't begin to comprehend the cognitive gymnastics it must take to maintain that degree of dissonance, but there's still, unfortunately, far too many people like that out there!

It's scary how some people get sucked in, but I guess that's why cults work.

I've never been on the TRA side, but I was first introduced to the ideology through FWR, and then went to learn, so maybe your stance depends on your entry point?

I think this is an important article that should be widely circulated. So many educated people who want to be inclusive and helpful have been caught up in this. Her story would resonate.

Really interesting article!

I went to Twitter after reading it to follow her but it turns out we follow each other already 😄

How strange that’s she believed this stuff

Jeez was just like her brain didn5 work

And she worked in anorexia field

And she took to twitter to have conversations

Jeez