I wrote a piece about getting radicalized and then engaging in manipulative behavior that I now find very harmful and unethical. I’m deeply sorry any harm I’ve caused.https://link.medium.com/QzIYUQRe8cb
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I understand why people pay so much attention to gender crit/radical feminists who are blatantly transphobic and offensive but people need to watch out for more “moderate” voices as well. They often play an important role in radicalizing and recruiting people.
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When I was a detrans rad fem, I never liked the gender crit/rad fems who were super offensive and disrespectful towards trans people, who talked about transition as "mutilation" and the like. I thought they were messed up and made radical feminists look bad.
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Those kinds of rad fems tended to be pretty disrespectful towards detrans women too. If we disagreed with them they would claim we were still stuck in the "trans cult". They would act like they understood our experiences better than we did.
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I wanted to reach transmasculine people with my ideology, so I wanted to come off as appealing as I could. I didn't want them to get repelled by radical feminists acting like assholes.
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I would also compare myself with overtly transphobic rad fems and it made what I was doing seem less extreme and sketchy in contrast. I could see that they really hated trans people and found them disgusting but I thought I was doing something different, something helpful.
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