Ky Schevers

...for years before I detransitioned and joined them. The particular rad fem subculture I joined was relatively new when I found it. Unlike the other online rad fems I'd been reading, these people were younger and had previously been involved in queer/trans scenes.

I found their arguments a lot more compelling because they had a much better understanding of queer/trans scenes than older rad fems who'd never belonged to those communities. They touched on real problems in the queer/trans scene and then used them to spread rad fem propaganda.

I was pissed off at the time because there had been major conflicts in my queer community that ended up hurting me and a lot of people I cared about. That made ex-queer rad fems' arguments even more convincing. They spoke to my anger and emotional pain.

I radicalized along side another detrans woman I met online who'd also had bad experiences in the queer/trans community. We reinforced each other's radicalization by sending each other gender crit articles and blog posts and making each other feel more comfortable exploring...

...that ideology. Then we started our own blogs on detransitioning, started connecting with other detrans women and ex-queer rad fems and then connected with older radical lesbian feminists, who mostly had no idea we even existed until we found them.

The early detrans women's community was mostly ex-queer rad fems and was part of the larger ex-queer rad fem community. I became a rad fem in 2013 and watched the community grow and expand since then. Watched it recruit more young people who used to be queer/trans.

Even as I joined it I was kinda surprised that this subculture existed. In the queer scene we treated radical feminism as something that was dying out, that only older women still believed in but here were all this younger people leaving the queer scene for radical feminism.

A lot of these younger rad fems keep their politics a secret from most people because many of their peers would turn against them if they found out. Many young rad fems still hang out in queer spaces and try to influence and shift the culture.

Younger rad fems are eager to recruit. Working to convert more people to radical feminism is a central part of that subculture and many of them are quite good at it. They might read the work of older gender crits/rad fems and some are friends with older rad fems but many...

...younger rad fems hang out and organize largely with each other. Probably a lot of older gender crits don't even know much or have much contact with the younger ex-queer rad fem community. They have their own particular version of radical feminism that's defined against...

...the queer/trans communities they left behind. They're reacting to the culture of queer and trans people who are their peers. They probably know a lot more about trans people than most older gender crits, they've had more real life contact with trans people, they might have...

...even identified as trans themselves at one point. They can make arguments drawing from their past experiences and knowledge of the queer/trans communities they're trying to recruit from. Their arguments can be far more compelling and dangerous because of their familiarity...