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Mistress Mary's avatar

This is the discussion I have been looking for. Thank you, Kara and Jennifer, for putting all the pieces together. Helen Joyce's book Trans touches on all of this, but here is something I can share in a nutshell. Brilliant !!

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Hazel-rah's avatar

A LOT of good facts in that interview. The conspiracy theory tone of it hurts rather than helps.

Who is behind this? Humans, and human nature, doing what they always do. Ambitious people reaching for new ideas, med/psych tools and tech that they can call their own, mentally ill people obsessing on unhealthy things, and the ever-present liberal mindset which absolutely LOATHES having to set boundaries. "No you can't do/have that, it's bad for you/others" is not normally in their vocabulary.

Those in charge in the 70s were able to hold it back for awhile. Hopkins shut down their own trans program, sacrificing what money and prestige it brought them, because they saw it wasn't helping, just enabling mental illness. They set an appropriate boundary.

Their successors in the field did not. They gave in to the privileged white male AGP narcissists and their gaslighting.

Those of us who have had the misfortune to be in relationship with an emotionally abusive narcissist are having unpleasant flashbacks. Now you all know what it feels like. At this point, the entire world is basically in an abusive relationship with a gaslighting narcissist in the persona of the trans movement.

The scariest thing to me about the gaslighting is that it's contagious. We see the liberal women and men who have been gaslit by trans activists turn around and use the same aggressive mindfuckery on others. A movement full of smart, educated people exercising not an ounce of self-awareness.

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