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Marketed fantasy vs reality.
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Trans is being marketed. Marketed as fun, frivolous and flamboyant. And if that's too superficial for you, don't worry, because it's also brave, courageous and hard. A painful journey, but ultimately a wonderfully inclusive and bonding celebration of womanhood. Sisterly and united.
No, it's not. Very few transwomen scale the dizzy heights of celebrity.
Most genuine trans people are known as Truscum by transactivists. They are as reviled as much as women. And if you decide to de-transition, as many women do, woe betide you. You will be ostracised and abused. You are a traitor to a cause, not someone who has managed to come to terms and manage a distressing condition.
The trans movement is unrecognisable to how it was 10 years ago.
Gender dysphoria is a real and crippling condition. And yes, it does hit children, generally at puberty. It's a nightmare for parents. They don't want it to be seen as an aspiration, to be celebrated. They are petrified of the route down which their children are lead. They want access to treatment, therapy, counselling. They don't want to be told that the only solution is to surgically remove their genitalia and keep them on hormones for the rest of their life, sterile and sexually compromised.
But nah. Let's just change privacy laws because of a handful of transactivists - abusive, sexist, and powerful.
To create laws that allow any man in the land access to any woman and child on the back of a condition that should be having as much money thrown at it as possible in order to find a cure, is ludicrous. And as useless for genuine transsexuals as it is dangerous for women.
Having gender dysphoria should absolutely remain the cornerstone of transgenderism. Cross dressing fetishists and celebrity autogynephiles need to fuck off.