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I think that there is an organized campaign on tumblr of fake “detransitioner” accounts (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by andros_rex@lemmy.world to c/transgender@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I have noticed that there are a ridiculous amount of accounts on Tumblr in radical feminist spaces that claim to be young detransitioners.

At first, I believed the accounts I saw. But as I observed more and more, I noticed a lot of strange and implausible stories. I know some trans people start E or T in their late teens, and surgery is possible, but the quantity of accounts claiming to have had top surgery at 16 or having had a friend have top surgery before 18 does not match with the numbers.

I’ve also noticed a sick eagerness to lie, and also to make fake accounts to send themselves disgusting things to react to.

I’m really concerned about this. There’s this strange ecosystem where teenage girls are interacting with bad actors, and I don’t think this radicalization pipeline is quite studied in the same way Gamergate was. The Rowling stuff is part of it, but it’s a lot more complicated. People need to start deradicalizing Gen Z/Alpha girls and women.

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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It’s so difficult to deal with. The stories are just subtly off. Way too many of them (and then, the double edge “lol look at how trans people aren’t believing that we exist”) You can’t call them out directly, because it would be shitty if they weren’t lying but catching them in the act is such a trick.

And so many fake accounts will claim to have some sort of qualifications in biology which just don’t add up with the way they talk about science.

It’s like some sort of cult. We have to figure out how to protect children from it. Not even just in the sense that it’s harmful to us - but it’s harmful for them. This deranged fixation on us, the eagerness to lie and hurt us, it’s mystifying me. I don’t get it.

[–] Forester@pawb.social 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Respectfully, there isn't much to get. You have been othered by them. They do not see you as a person. They do not see you as someone deserving respect or compassion. Their lives are shitty and empty and you an easy target that can be harassed and humiliated in order to make them feel better about themselves.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

I guess the best that can be done is to try to draw out the vicious ones - to make them give up the game. To say the disgusting shit that will alienate “centrists” and fence sitters.

They attack our history, they say we weren’t killed in the Holocaust, that our books weren’t burned, that we’re just silly and are seeking validation from drivers license, or that we’re rapists seeking to forcibly convert gays and lesbians…. I don’t get it. Why does anyone want to live in a world like this?