Transphobes have kicked a new tactic into gear of late. They've started to single out "TRAs" as the *reason our transphobia is in overdrive*. You've probably seen:

"The good transes are quiet. It's those nasty *TRAs* who dare to speak!" more than you used too.

1/ https://twitter.com/BellaRizinti/status/1286996847962267649

For those who don't know, "TRA" = Trans Rights Activist.

By this they mean trans & cis folk who have the nerve to challenge their transphobia & draw any kind of attention to it.

It's an intimidation tactic. "We want to shame you into silence!"

With the help of a...

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...certain cis white billionaire author who has recently gone public with her previously behind the scenes transphobia, who is using her massive wealth to threaten & intimidate any1 who calls out her transphobia, they have stepped up their game of "Shaming you into silence".

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Now the transphobe in my thread attached in the 1st tweet has recently spend over 54 consecutive hours being transphobic on the thread that those screenshots were taken from. Her arguments ranged from the absurd "aliens" take to rape enabling, rape apology, victimising...

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survivors of rape because she argued they "weren't ackshually raped", invoking Islamophobic talking points, racist talking points, basically, if you can think of every horrific thing transphobes say to attack and invalidate trans people, she used it and went BEYOND that.

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Their latest tactic, I a briefly mentioned is to attack people they label "TRAs" and attempt to make them out as the oppressors who are bullying them in an attempt to silence anyone who dares challenge them. They claim victim status. Try to manipulate the narrative & make...

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..out like they "were just on the VERGE of being convinced of something that could make me change forever!" in one branch of thread, while in several other branches of that same thread, where you can't see because you may not be @ into it, they continue on with...

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...their transphobia. Now most people don't see this because while they're in a thread, they tend to answer only the mentions that they are specifically mentioned in. When you have multiple branches in your mentions, you might find it hard to keep up and it can be confusing.

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If you step away from your mentions however, and go directly to the transphobes tweets & replies, you'll see how manipulative and devious they really are. The "I was on the verge of a breakthrough!" that they've just pulled in your mentions is easily verified as FALSE when...

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you see the nature of all their tweets. They are never on the verge of anything in 99% of the cases. It's sea lioning at it's best. The aim here is to discourage cis folks from challenging their transphobia by claiming we're "bullying them". They want to intimidate...

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cis people who support trans folks into silence. To make them doubt themselves based on "if you speak against a transphobe, you'll bully them deeper into transphobeland". That's what happened in my case. I'm not the only cis person they try this on lately. To further...

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illustrate my point here, last night, after the transphobe in the screenshots had blocked me for at least 16 hours, she unblocked me long enough to send me a DM (attached). Bear in mind here, her entire acct is WALL TO WALL transphobia. This is a professional transphobe...

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spends every waking moment on Twitter, being transpobic and invalidating trans & non-binary people. Her acct is currently set to private but you can check for yourselves when she eventually unlocks, and she will unlock cuz her entire purpose here is to hate on trans people.

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To clarify, I posted 4 screenshots of her tweets, that she wrote herself, pointing out her transphobia and her abhorrent "women evolved smaller to be raped" tweet. There are so many more disgusting takes on her acct. These were just the one's that included me. Notice...

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how she attempts to turn her 50+ hour attacks on trans folks in that thread back on me. Notice how she plays the "it's your fault that I still hate trans people because you a) drew too much attention to my horrific tweets and b) dared to challenge me at all so now it's on...

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...when I double my hateful efforts and attack trans people even harder!"

Where she mentions "common ground" there. She eased up slightly on one brand of the thread, but you wouldn't see is that she was arguing the same talking points in another branch, but DOUBLING DOWN.

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Transphobes like Lis are manipulators. They are liars. They cry victim at the drop of a hat when they get push back. The DM from her last night was a 1st. It's the 1st time one of them has tried to manipulate me in private. This is bold and devious. Imagine them trying...

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...this tactic on someone else, someone who's less used to how they run from their playbook. Someone who's not as aware of their tactics and how much they lie to achieve their goals. Intimidating people into silence.

Now there are some who come back from that GC ledge.

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You'll find them around on Twitter. The most common reason they come back from that ledge is because they've been abused by the GC brigade themselves and that abuse open their eyes. There are few who have been talked back with logic & reason. It can happen. Transphobes r...

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feeling the loss of those ex gc members. It's alarming them. This recent upsurge in attempts at intimidation and playing the victim who "almost change my mind" has oddly coincided with a number of GC jumping ship. There's really nothing they won't try tbf. They've tried...

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every possible thing u think of 2 stop cis people from supporting trans folks. This one isn't surprising. All of this is me asking cis folks who support trans people not to fall for this manipulative transphobe tactic. Keep being vocal & challenge them. Don't fall for this shit

Over the last 2 years on twitter, I've watched trans & non-binary folks try to explain how transphobes operate. How insidious they are & how they employ almost black op levels of subterfuge in their methods. It's not an exaggeration but your average Jo finds this inconceivable.

The terrifying part of all this is the way that transphobes attempt to come across as "reasonable", & unless you spend considerable amounts of time monitoring their multitudes of sock accts to familiarise yourself with these methods, you can actually get sucked in by them.