[Livia]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Yes. I have said this for a very long time now. The socialization is so obvious. You do not see transmen demanding entry into male areas, you see no transmen winning awards and such...transmen are basically invisible whilst transwomen are at the forefront screaming about unfairness and demanding everyone else buy into their religion.

Actually a bulk of transactivism comes across extremely MRA like to me too. And MRA types like to attach themselves to transactivism for obvious reasons. If it becomes law that any man is a woman, then thats all womens rights gone in one swoop. Part of the reason I am so against it. I kind of see a lot of transactivism as a fightback against women getting more equal. Its backlash, and the MRAs love it. Obviously not all transactivists are MRAs, but there is so much crossover its impossible to ignore.

Look...once I saw it I could not unsee it tbh

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Not all transactivists are like that obviously, but a hell of a lot are. These tend to be the same ones who believe in 'lady penis' and don't actually alter their bodies in any way, the ones who say that sex dysphoria is not needed to be trans...the more mental ones. They come across exactly like MRAs to me. Seems that some men have found a way to pushback against women getting equal. And its genius really..to attach yourself to a group of people who do generally require support and understanding.

I first started to think along these lines when a member here, thetruth, was adamant that in a story about the 'first female on the frontline' (which was a male...who had completed training as a male then suddenly decided they were actually a woman. At this time, women could not actually serve o n the frontline as the training to allow them to was still underway) the person was absolutely a woman. It rang alarm bells for me. And since, its cemented even more.

Thanks Vicky, now I can never unsee that either LOL...

I'm in total agreement with you on this issue. And yes, the last paragraph... how are women supposed to react to someone who's always been a man, still has a penis, decides he's now a woman and hey presto! He's suddenly declared the first woman on the Front Line. Meanwhile born women are still jumping through the hoops that men have set up, in order to even try to get as far as the front line.