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Originally Posted by Niamh.

It's a shame because what these trans activists are doing is almost proving why she's concerned and most of them probably aren't even trans people.

That's why I think the extremes of trans activism are doing far more damage to trans acceptance right now than good. A lot of the Twitter accounts making threats or "wishes" of sexual violence are, at least in claim, transwomen... By "the rules" that has to be accepted because we're supposed to accept without reservation that self-ID is all that's required. They say they are women, so they are women.

Except that using threats, wishes or jokes about sexual violence as a shaming technique against women is a very psychologically male mindset. It's a thing that MEN do when they are angry. This is pretty well studied by psychological shaming researchers. So you have a group of biologically male transwomen engaging in male behaviours that come from male socialisation - male gendered behaviour - while insisting that they are women by gender. It turns the whole thing into a sham.