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[–] ShitArchon 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

People in the UK getting arrested for misgendering someone.

You know what I hate about this? Because the impression I get from reading lots of Mumsnet threads, "trans widow" blogs, GenderCritical, etc. is if it weren't for the above censorship and AGPs being prominent and getting free rein on these issues, TERFs and pro-gatekeeping types would be a dying breed. But thanks to said censorship, TERF ideology looks attractive--not just the "keep Chris-chan's and Stefoknee Wolscht's erect penises out of the women's locker room," but conspiracy theories like "autogynephiles support early transition to cover for their fetish" and "conservatives support transition to eliminate gay kids." When you adopt the latter beliefs, you end thinking Leelah Alcorn's parents were good people who dindu nuffinz and gatekeeping and preventing hormone access is a good thing--which directly results in lots of hons who make excuses about their inability to go on hormones (meanwhile, travestis in Brazil are popping estrogen pills as teenagers--even AGPs like Lisa Lawer, who isn't delicately built like her HSTS counterparts, end up looking like nice women). TERF ideology is the equivalent of when right-wingers notice that Tanya Gersh and other Ashkenazim are neurotic, sociopathic cunts and then also concluding that Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is a real document and not a blatant plagiarism of the 19th-century play Dialogue of Montesquieu and Machiavelli in Hell. At least on Mumsnet some users make a distinction between normie transsexuals and the AGPs who cause all the trouble, but GenderCritical and Kiwi Farms hop right to "hormones r bad, no one should ever be allowed to have them."

There's a reason Thailand has lots of lovely kathoeys who look like a more glamorous version of biological women, and the UK has lots of hons who look like Chris-chan. They've created a structure that incentivizes it--if you make gender changes easy to get but actual hormones and shit hard to get, you've created a playground for transtrender brutes with a crossdressing fetish like Stefoknee Wolscht and Travis Alabanza and a miserable situation for bona-fide transsexuals. This is the exact opposite of policy and societal behavior in Thailand and the Philippines.