Thinking out loud about cult-like dynamics in trans communities
Thread of threads I’ve written exploring cult-like dynamics in online trans communities… and there’s a lot more to come:
How impossible expectations and demands isolate trans people from friends and family and increase their dependence on the conditional acceptance extended by trans communities.
How phobia indoctrination instills irrational fears in members of manipulative groups, which makes members easier to control and what that looks like in trans communities.
On internalized transphobia and how the process of indoctrination installs an unsleeping, internal watchman to oversee one’s full-scale personal transformation.
On the deceptive journey of 'self-discovery' sold to transitioners.
How it's impossible for women (whether AFABs in trans community or trans allies) trying to play by the ever-shifting rules to win. No matter how hard you try, you're always one breath away from causing offense and being denounced as violent or a "TERF."
How coercive control and deceptive language suppress and deny problems in the community.
On smothered intuition and the campaign to sever people from their independent judgment so they distrust or disown their own problematic perceptions.