Have you ever noticed, that when talking about children, the gender criticals always focus on trans *boys*, so they can claim 'they transition because of misogyny', but when talking about adults, they always speak of trans *women*, and claim we transition for access to women?
This way they get to claim that trans people are misogynists coming for their girls, and misogynists coming for women, but conveniently elide the fact that there are also young trans girls, transitioning *into* the misogyny.
If trans women only transition for fetishistic or predatory reasons, what are they saying about these trans girls? They're little predators in waiting? No, they know they can't get away with saying that out loud - so they just ignore them, leave them out of the narrative.
Or when they do bring them in, they claim that instead it's homophobia - little gay boys being turned into girls against their will. This despite the fact that fully 3/4 trans people are LGB *after* transition - pretty shite conversion therapy that is. But facts are inconvenient.
And for trans men too - they can get away with saying young girls are being pressured into transition, because frankly we live in a society that eats that narrative up, the 'other' coming for the girls. But they can't quite swing the same for adult trans men. So they're ignored.
It's all rhetorical sleight of hand. By conveniently ignoring the trans people that don't fit the narrative they want at any given moment, they can continually paint us as whatever demon we need to be.

Whenever you see a GC try this shit, just ask 'what about all the others?'
Watch them bluster. Watch them squirm. Like as not, watch them flip their shit and start calling you a child abuse enabler, or a fetishist or predator yourself.

Gender criticals are by and large, fundamentally dishonest. They have to be, or their narrative falls apart.
The simple fact of the matter is - there's no grand narrative, beyond 'trans people are bad'. The conspiracies are all different, our supposed crimes are all different depending who you talk to. The 'facts' are whatever they need to be, as long as the result is our persecution.
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