Transman Jackie McPherson wrote this brief recent history of trans politics in the US:
"Once upon a time, trans people could only transition socially - there simply was no medical or surgical recourse.
Transmen (who are female, but think of ourselves as men because of some as-yet undiscovered brain glitch) would bind our breasts, cut our hair in an accepted masculine style, wear accepted masculine clothing, and often be simply accepted as if we were men.
Transwomen (who are male, but think of themselves as women because of some as-yet undiscovered brain glitch) would apply make-up, put on wigs, wear accepted feminine clothing, and often be simply accepted as if they were women.
At the same time, there were plenty of people who cross-dressed without having any such brain glitch, either simply because the lifestyle ascribed to the opposite sex was more appealing than anything their society allowed them to do within the bounds of their own, or because they were homosexual and cross-dressing allowed them to be a couple.
Then came modern medicine, and surgery, and hormones.
Neither could be accessed without going through the psych profession, which (as anyone who has ever had to access them for any reason will know) isn't so much a profession as a loose collection of people, many with mental health issues themselves, with widely differing reasons for wanting to get inside the minds of others.
Whilst there are genuine, caring professionals who want the best for their clients, who empathise with them and do their best to help them find the least traumatic way to live their lives, there are far too many who love the feeling of power that having clients gives them, who will mess with their clients' minds in order to keep them coming back for 'therapy' for the rest of their lives.
Collectively, they decided that no-one was getting surgery or hormones until they had been living for a whole year exclusively as a stereotype of the opposite sex. Transmen had to be hyper-masculine, transwomen hyper-feminine. The fact that, outside of fifties' sitcoms, *no-one* actually fitted the stereotypes, was conveniently forgotten in the dysfunctional world of psychoanalysis.
Many, many trans people were 'helped' to see their bodies as even more problematic than before, and ended up on the surgery/hormone/psychoanalysis treadmill.
Then people started saying (especially in the USA, where such treatment is beyond the pocket of most) "Sod this, I'm going back to the way things were before the medical industry got involved." and found themselves fighting for recognition from a bureaucracy which had pretty much taken over society in the interim.
Now there is a bunch of people with a developmental disorder, rather like autism (and there is more overlap between the two groups than should occur by chance), who are agitating for the right to be themselves without being medicalised, and they've discovered the internet as a great way to organise. They form support groups, like small shoals in the ocean of the web, and accept anyone who self-declares, because they remember being the only one who knew how they felt, and want to be supportive above all else.
But there are sharks in the sea, and predators on the web, and they soon smelled weakness, and came swimming in.
Malignant narcissists, and their shoals of attending sycophants and enablers, infiltrated the groups. They gradually started to take over - most people, especially people with developmental disorders, aren't too keen on putting themselves into leadership positions, and willingly hand the job to someone who is happy to do it. Such groups are set up with an assumption of honesty, and are completely incapable of recognising malicious duplicity.
By the time we realised that these people had a totally different agenda, it was too late in many cases to wrest control from them. Anyone attempting to do so soon found themselves at the wrong end of a vicious campaign to silence and discredit them, often including people they once considered close friends (the latter having been carefully groomed to be camouflage for the sharks).
The groups had changed from support groups for people who are trans (or autistic) into support groups for malignant narcissists. And now those narcissists, with their enlarged support network, are on the prowl for more prey.
They don't care about the damage that they've done and are doing to trans people, except insofar as it boosts their egos; and they now want to destroy women, starting with Lesbians because they have judged that there are plenty of women who will throw their Lesbian sisters to the sharks to protect themselves.
Let's prove them wrong.
Let's call out these predators for what they are. Don't let them hide in the herd. If you haven't read Animal Farm and 1984, do so. They are a warning - and the narcissists are effectively using them as training manuals.
If you don't believe me - look at what has happened to the government of the USA. It is being destroyed from within by people who only want power without responsibility. They are incompetent, vicious and destructive."
