How it started...how it's going...where it'll go...

[RealityFan]

This isn't a thread about the deep origins of TRA. For one, I'm only aware of the basics, it's been going on for decades. I can't add much to what we already know about transvestism and the three letter acronym that gets you deleted on MN.

No, this is my take as someone who got hooked on the subject a decade ago, peaked in the last few years, having had some CBT to clarify my thoughts and provide perspective, and how I feel it's "evolving".

Additionally, I'm a male, no matter how empathetic I am to the damage done to the female sex class, as a male, I can only observe and comment. My chain is yanked more from a free speech, neo religion/philosophical POV. Better to be honest about where we're all coming from in this, so we can offer our best efforts to combat.

What I'm seeing in 2023, and why I consider this a watershed year in the flip back to reality, is the froth and churn in the phenomenon.

So, before the pandemic, in 2018/19, there were flashpoints like KJK and her first Adult Human Female rollouts that were nullified by TRA Adrian Harrop. There were the clinicians banned from pediatric mental health conferences for promoting Watchful Waiting. There was JKR, and Glinner, being actively bullied online.

However, these still felt like isolated cases, I hadn't been on social media long, and despite being exasperated, felt that this was the extent of the phenomenon, no momentum built in any dramatic meaningful way.

Yes, # NoDebate was in full swing, but no way would the Left at large really dig down on this. The Left still believed in free speech, yes?

So, I was infuriated, but not overly worried, despite stories escalating (I was particularly peaked by Jessica Yaniv and a non trans cancel culture story, Oberlin College).

Then, lockdown happened, we all bunkered down, we all lived online. Then George Floyd happened, BLM exploded, and I believe from that point the Left elites ramped up all social justice activism, primarily the Anti Racism mantras, and allied to those, trans activism in all its guises and radical tactics.

And then for me, the movement took it's fateful dark turn, with the Lia Thomas story last year. Not only was Lia to be absolutely addressed as a woman, by teammates, rest of fraternity, but also media, society at large. To the point a few years ago where we went from "men believe they can be women, ID as their gender" a few years back to "men can become women, and you will accept it".

Now, No Debate went from a cloudy concept to a full on dark thundercloud, the mantra TWAW to be meant literally, and to be literally enforced.

And thence to Emily Bridges, Austin Killips.

There were cases I read in 2019 of men in women's prisons, suddenly 2023...Isla Bryson, and had the UK been Canada, Mumsnet would be shut down for discussing it.

We went from more and more ructions at demonstrations in 2019 to ramped up violence of masked men at rallys in 2023 literally breaking the skulls of old women.
And the new phenomenon, whataboutery on VAWG from the Left.

We went from male breastfeeding in 2019 as a fetish on TransReddit to a union activist doing it on Twitter in 2023, supported by the wider Left activist movement.

We went from men shouting a lot in 2019, to lethal criminals being lauded for saying that TERFs should have their faces punched to huge cheers at an official Pride event.

Last example, in 2019 the only place you found a Jessica Yaniv type was on TikTok or Trans/Reddit, today in August 2023 we have an out and out male fetishist being locked in the school room with students who to a boy and girl will be thinking "get me the fuck out of here!"

Now, a year ago, I was in a deep funk. I had just read the story of Emily Bridges running the noses of women cyclists at the Thundercrit road race meet, and felt the war was lost. Totally. I was so upset that day, I looked like someone who's beloved dog had been run ocer. That a story so toxic and so preposterous, was allowed to stand, no MSM picked up on it, and the female who was robbed of Gold went onto Twitter to support Bridges. It couldn't get any worse.

I actually think that was the low point. Because everything since has been an object lesson in focussed resistance from the GC side getting results, provoking overacting in the TRAs, and tactical defeats and the air leaking from their movement.

The victories in court for Forstater, Bailey, Bindel, Cherry...hopefully soon Ali, the three OU cases.

The humiliation of SNP over Bryson. And resultant change in Labour Party policy.

The shitshow that is $billions share prices nosedives for Bud Light, Target, likely Costa.

The opinion polls that show the high point of acceptance for the Stonewall position being 2019, polls recently all moving fast in GC direction.

The absolute negative reaction to the likes of Mika Minio cos play breastfeeding, enforced language in NHS, public's increasing fears on RSE in schools and the messages on gender to kids.

And the collapse of # No Debate...no more blackballing Helen Joyce, Kath Stock, Richard Dawkins, Peter Boghossian, JKR etc. What worked in 2019, is unacceptable in 2023.

My conclusion? This is an (un)civil war, has been raging maybe since the late 60s as the mantra to an intersectionally analysed world transpired, embedded thru decades of elite Left drift in policy making, in academia and the law, knowing that Joe and Joely Public would never go for it, so our minds made up for us on our behalf. That was the landscape pre Covid, certainly up to 2023.

But as the hot lava of trans policy in particular hits the cold ice of reality, only one result, billows of steam, and that's what we're seeing in 2023.

Whether it's my CBT having been successful, I don't know, but Ive done a mental 180 to my dark days from 12-15 months ago, I truly feel as these various waves of TRA spike into public consciousness, the blow back is now so severe, that the TRA side tries harder and harder, their defeat more and more inevitable, even if it'll take a few more years.

From Isla Bryson to Dylan Mulvaney to Emily Bridges to Austin Killips to Mika Minio to Sarah Jane Baker to the Z Cup Canadian teacher, this is the "best" trans has to offer.

My conclusion...it sure started weird, it became beyond weird this year, the future will be a whole lot less weird.

Ha ha, don't get RSI with all that stirring you're doing.
You know what happens if you keep at it too much, your spoon falls off.
Didn't your mum tell you it'll make you go blind?

What makes you think anybody here wants to be “the cool mum that kids like to confide in”, BinRaidingRaccoon?

Is that what you would like to be?

I am not as optimistic as you. While we adults might feel that things are settling to a more sane place, kids are being indoctrinated at school into the idea that womanhood is not a material reality. Many young people now believe that lots and lots of tiny women could easily beat a large man in a fight, if they would only try a little harder and believe in themselves more. I believe this distortion in their view of reality results partly from tv shows that portray kick-a$$ female heroines routinely defeating larger men. I confess I myself was an advocate of such shows. But I knew they were fantasy! Kids now don't realize that, apparently. The effect of mass media on our view of the world is pervasive, it turns out.

The future is with the youth and the youth are on board for the trans agenda. So any "sanity" is only temporary.

Personally, I suspect what we actually have is a perfect storm.

I do believe the internet has driven this fad and has allowed it to gain ground like no other fad before it.

I don’t agree that it has occurred wholly randomly. I believe there has been a great deal of this that has been driven from the top down and continues to be. Dismissing it as an “Illuminati-type” situation is to ignore the fact that the extensive undermining of our institutions that has occurred strongly resembles exactly the kind of tactics that predatory businesses use when carrying out hostile takeover attempts.

There has certainly been some level of organisation, with the deliberate tactic of secrecy alongside aligning itself with other causes and more genuine rights claims. There has also been some careful positioning of people in key positions, who did not reveal their intentions until they were firmly embedded.

The Denton’s document did not write itself.

So there’s an extent to which those businessmen who have driven some of the changes have got lucky with their timing, but anyone who has genuinely looked at the levels of capture and the techniques employed in attaining that capture cannot doubt that there has been some top-down manipulation of the situation.

That’s two threads Racoon’s love of coolness has popped up on 🤣

Where’s that Steve Buscemi gif when you need it? 🤣

It’s an interesting post as it outlines many events and I broadly agree we’ve seen a kind of peak here in terms of no debate etc moving to now

We have a strong GC friendly media which is lacking elsewhere. Half of it anyway, obviously some is fully captured

However I am not certain it’s all downhill from now due to upcoming GE

I look to other countries and can see steady progression unabated and think maybe the U.K. will continue to reverse, or not

I hope so with everything I’ve got but post GE concerns me

Also schools are mostly captured so I agree with pp that that is another major concern