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to be defending this marginalized group, because after all as a gay guy and a die-hard progressive, why wouldn't I pass it forward? Then, it was kind of like an avalanche, slow at first, quickly becoming unavoidable. A couple of my trans/nb friends began detransitioning. /1

Some of the conversations I'd had with them shook me, finding out what was actually happening that whole time, but I got sucked into breadtube pretty hard (Contra/PhilosophyTube/Ellis etc) and thanks to a little cognitive dissonance I was as determined a TRA as ever. /3

But then I had my first experience witnessing the Cotton Ceiling. Not through some text post online, but through an incident IRL. I honestly could not believe what I was hearing/seeing. That was when I couldn't hold back the questions anymore. I started researching, and /4

you know what happens when you look behind the veil. Lesbians communities were being absolutely steamrolled by this shit. Lesbians receiving rape/death threats for turning down MtF people, and instead of being called out, the MtFs were cheered on and comforted. I was fucking /5

floored. Then, the whole thing with JKR, jfc. My faith was hanging on by a thread at that point, but when I went in to read her essay, expecting to come away distraught that a person I looked up to was a bigot, I found myself reading a compassionate plea to acknowledge women's /6

rights. I read it a few more times because I was having a hard time processing everything. I knew everything I had been evangelizing for years had been a lie, and I felt sick about it. The next few weeks were not fun, cat out of the bag, eyes opened, Vancouver Rape Relief /7

center, AGP, the Boxer Ceiling (oh hey they're gunning for me too lol fun), and actually listening to what those dreaded 'TERFs' were saying and coming to the sickening realization that I'd been lied to about them as well. It all just crumbled. /8

Not to mention what a mess the TRA 'community' had become. People were being cancelled, even high-profile people like Contra, for the most bland and inoffensive takes, wrongthink, associating with the wrong people. The fact that it was a cult finally hit me in the face like /9