I have noticed that there are a ridiculous amount of accounts on Tumblr in radical feminist spaces that claim to be young detransitioners.
At first, I believed the accounts I saw. But as I observed more and more, I noticed a lot of strange and implausible stories. I know some trans people start E or T in their late teens, and surgery is possible, but the quantity of accounts claiming to have had top surgery at 16 or having had a friend have top surgery before 18 does not match with the numbers.
I’ve also noticed a sick eagerness to lie, and also to make fake accounts to send themselves disgusting things to react to.
I’m really concerned about this. There’s this strange ecosystem where teenage girls are interacting with bad actors, and I don’t think this radicalization pipeline is quite studied in the same way Gamergate was. The Rowling stuff is part of it, but it’s a lot more complicated. People need to start deradicalizing Gen Z/Alpha girls and women.
I guess the best that can be done is to try to draw out the vicious ones - to make them give up the game. To say the disgusting shit that will alienate “centrists” and fence sitters.
They attack our history, they say we weren’t killed in the Holocaust, that our books weren’t burned, that we’re just silly and are seeking validation from drivers license, or that we’re rapists seeking to forcibly convert gays and lesbians…. I don’t get it. Why does anyone want to live in a world like this?