Thread by @genderisharmful, I often find myself questioning my reasons & motivations behind my fight [...]

I often find myself questioning my reasons & motivations behind my fight with the transgender issue. I question my feelings, anger & fears, my biases & privileges. Most of all, I question my tolerance levels, because my biggest fear is, I’m being too intolerant.
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However, I want to clarify my position in a way that makes absolutely clear, where my head & heart is at & how I got caught up in this whole scenario. My journey is unique, but also common. I started out as supportive, but grew ever more antithetical.
This is why I fight:
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I fight because I find the concept of gender abhorrent. We are all subjected to it. Imposed on us from the day we are born, the skewed sex roles that come from gender are oppressive & hard to live up to for those of us who are non-conforming.
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I fight because I hate the expectations of those sex roles & don’t believe in upholding them. Gender is the oppressive tool by which we are controlled & managed. I was assaulted as a boy for not conforming. I was abused for being different, ‘soft’ & not ‘manly’ enough.
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I fight because of the stereotypes & gendered norms. The blue/boy/dominant/aggressive & pink/girl/pretty/submissive thing… such norms are controlling, oppressive & ultimately, harmful. Pink/blue is the simplest visual representation of this. Which leads me to the flag…
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I fight because the trans flag blue/boy & pink/girl concept, is demonstrative of how the trans movement upholds those norms. Far from fighting the stereotypes & confronting them, it props them up, perpetuates the oppression & glorifies the colours in the symbol of the flag.
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I fight because of the utterly nonsensical notion that if a child ticks all the ‘right’ boxes in the way they play, conduct themselves & behave, it somehow equates them with being a boy or a girl, regardless of their biological body, as if it were mind over matter.
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I fight because this generation of non-conforming kids are being encouraged to commit to a lifelong regime of treatments & surgery, some of which could be irreversible & render them infertile in order to fulfil their impressionable mind’s idea they must be a girl/boy.
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I fight because children are vulnerable to such ‘magical’ thinking & are having their otherwise healthy psycho-social & biological development disrupted and corrupted by a skewed phenomenon which involves elements of sexual fetish, mental illness & conversion therapy.
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I fight because I don’t believe my children should grow up to think that puberty can be wrong, that their bodies might be wrong and can simply ‘change’ their body via surgeries & puberty blockers. If they are unnerved by the changes in their bodies, it is perfectly normal!
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I fight because this blight upon the human race, called ‘gender’ is damaging us all, but more so, women and children. Children should not be led to believe they can simply alter their bodies to suit their feelings, which are unstable & easily swayed at the best of times.
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I fight because kids are vulnerable to the selfish gluttony of capitalism & the patriarchal powers that drive it. No child should be told they’re in the wrong body lest they fall prey to the vile bully of body shaming & the capitalist vultures who ‘pick up the pieces’.
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I fight because I want to safeguard children from possibly making the biggest mistake of their life. To expose the quasi-scientific nonsense that proffers, you can solve your inner woes by transitioning & taking medication which is irreversible could render them infertile.
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I fight because kids deserve better than being told their bodies are wrong just because they play with the toys they like, the friends they like & dress as they like. Doing what you like & not conforming, doesn’t need a label. You are what you are. Transition isn’t needed.
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I fight because a lot of adults who are older, wiser, happier than they were when they were younger & who had been confused & bewildered by the world around them with the body they had, may have chosen the trans route to their detriment. They were L, G or B, but not T.
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I fight because women and children deserve to be free of the gender trap. They deserve to be free of the roles forced upon them as a sex class. They deserve to have their voices heard without fear of being told to, ‘shut the fuck up’ or endure rape & death threats.
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I fight because women are not a feeling, a costume or an identity. They are what they are, united by their bodies & functions, their position in relation to men and their oppression at the hands of men. They deserve better. They deserve liberation from that bondage.
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I fight because I find the notion that gender; femininity & masculinity, should have priority over our bodies utterly abhorrent. I will do what I want, regardless of any skewed, societal agreement of men & women’s acceptable behaviours.
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I fight because I foresee tremendous suffering, brought about by the relentless conforming to arbitrary standards. Gender has become fully marketized & is presented as a golden ticket to happiness. The truth is: gender is controlling, soul-destroying & harmful.
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I fight because we all deserve better and as long as there are women & children who are suffering at the hands of the patriarchy, I will not cease until the wider public see this grand scale misogyny for what it is.
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