Not to mention, a few cherry picked oddball psychologists does not a consensus make. There are civil engineers that will say 9/11 was a thermite inside job and physicians that say crystals have healing powers. That doesn't mean they are right or even represent the scientific community's broad consensus.
I also suspect most of the people spreading transphobic messages have never had a close openly trans friend, partner, or family member.
> I also suspect most of the people spreading transphobic messages have never had a close openly trans friend, partner, or family member.
Many gender-critical women are those who have experienced the trans phenomenon via a man in their life deciding that he is now a woman, and observing first hand the misogyny in his expression of what he thinks makes him a woman. The accounts of transwidows (women whose husbands transitioned) are particularly depressing and painful to read, as their marriage breaks down while he transforms himself into an offensive caricature of womanhood.
I really feel for those women, having a partner transition is hard on any relationship. The person you fall in love with is your own perception of who the other person is and all that gets shattered in an instant because of a burden they’ve carrying for their whole lives finally becomes too heavy to bear and it changes their relationship forever. Some people are able to make it through that, others aren’t, and it’s okay either way. But when the relationship ends right after they start transitioning they don’t see their partner work through all their feelings, traumas, and see the other side.
You’re right, that lots of trans women lean into the stereotypes of womanhood right after they come out. And that’s because they’re going through all the awkward cringy phases that teenagers go through. Turns out those phases are more to do with the process of self-discovery than it does age. Because lord knows when I was 15 I wore skirts too short, way too much makeup, and was past the girly phase and already on the “reject pink” phase. They’re learning how to be women just like we all did. It is a source of endless fun teasing one of the women I volunteer with who’s currently going through an emo phase. So maybe it’s cringy but I choose to see the good in that someone is able to be so sincere and authentic and I would feel bad ruining her innocent fun. And just like all other women they figure themselves out and mellow.
Forbidden because gender theorists aggressively attack anyone that suggests autogynophiles exist as a way to push the ‘self id’ laws that allow arbitrary men to enter women’s spaces.
Nobody is posting transphobic messages. We don’t want people to irreparably harm their bodies because we care about them, unlike others.
Not to mention, a few cherry picked oddball psychologists does not a consensus make. There are civil engineers that will say 9/11 was a thermite inside job and physicians that say crystals have healing powers. That doesn't mean they are right or even represent the scientific community's broad consensus.
I also suspect most of the people spreading transphobic messages have never had a close openly trans friend, partner, or family member.