Scottish Susie nails it:
"ScottishSusie
14 hours ago
Hey, Yas, here is my opinion on all that. I hope it can shed some light on why some people are so angry and why we now have stuff like 'Man's Friday'. So - until a couple of years ago, I had no problem with transgender people. Obviously I wanted them to have equal rights, and supported any measure that would make their lives more comfortable, including the use of their preferred changing rooms. Now, however - what we're seeing, both in online spaces like tumblr and real life, is a slide from 'I was born in the wrong body and my life is hell' to 'I don't really feel like a man' (whatever that means) - a woozy feeling that changes from week to week and can then revert back to 'I am a man after'. There is a lot of confusion on the difference between gender roles and gender identity. A lot of it. Also, this self-identifying fad is already causing victims - namely, teens who're brainwashed by this culture and blindly supported, or pushed, by their parents into taking hormones very early in life and later regret it and have to go through painful procedures to get their lives back. You can Google their stories - they're heartbreaking. And that's not even mentioning aggressive 'trans activists' targeting women online, threatening to rape us or cut our breasts off. I personally witnessed people doxxing a (lesbian) rape survivor because she'd said she wouldn't sleep with a trans woman if she had a penis - because trauma. People were vicious to her, and that's also new - this idea that you have to sleep with anyone who asks you or you're being bigoted. These people are a shame for your community, and yet I never hear anyone calling them out. Why do you support people like Andi Dier, who recently disrupted Rose McGowan's book presentation in NY? Ms Dier is a known predator - her online messages clearly states she's only interested in underage partners - and she yelled at an abuse survivor who'd offered solidariy to the trans community. And yet, deafening silence and more attacks on Rose for not being more friendly or something. And on top of that, there are all those other people - a minority for now, but who knows - whom you refuse to denounce as mentally ill or fame-seeking weirdos - those currently self-identifying as owls (owlkin), elves (elfkin), Philipino women, Black people, 9-yo girls - the list goes on. This is highly problematic. We can't have a society where you wake up on Monday, identify as a 7-yo boy and, what?, the government is legally obligated to accept you into a classroom? Or should we provide tanks for those self-identifying as mermaids and sharks? No, this has gone far enough. The trans community needs to make clear that being trans is a real and serious issue, not a circus, and not something people generally change their minds on. If you want to be taken seriously, oust those activists who behave in unacceptable ways and let's talk about this like adults. Now, obviously I can't claim I speak for other people, but what I've seen around me is that many have changed their minds on trans people because of this exact stuff - people who supported trans rights a few years ago now feel under attack from a very aggressive crowd who demands we are fired and branded as the worst scum of the Earth if we make mistakes on your choice of pronouns or refuse to acknowledge that a 60-yo man claiming to be a 9-yo girl is anything else than mentally ill. And no doubt some people were prejudiced before and are prejudiced now, but really - by not having these discussions inside the community, you're alienating your potential allies. So, maybe - food for thought?"