Lol they want you to be outraged that someone might change their mind but ppl change their mind all the time e.g. divorce so trying to pass it as a trans issue is a thinly veiled gaslight
If I am reading correctly, they are just pointing out that people regret all kinds of decisions that have lasting impact on life. To try to say that trans people in particular need to be “protected” from transition because of possible regret is acting as though that regret is uniquely bad, which isn’t the case. Hence why it would be gaslighting.
Can you maybe provide some quotes where you are seeing this? It reads to me more as someone who is coming to terms with not really being comfortable anywhere, and thinks that should be “okay” too. I didn’t see anything about protecting people, or that they had regret, but maybe I did not read some part of it close enough.
It seemed to me like they perceived that some people to be outraged by people who change their mind and were advocating that all decisions should be safe.
To transition and then change one’s mind about it was an unspeakable, disgusting fate, almost no matter whom you asked. That didn’t exactly make gender exploration any easier. I contemplated transition for years but didn’t move forward, because I so deeply feared getting it wrong. And then once I started, I was terrified of how it might look for me to turn back.
That is not wanting people outraged, that is being afraid of outrage.
Lol they want you to be outraged that someone might change their mind but ppl change their mind all the time e.g. divorce so trying to pass it as a trans issue is a thinly veiled gaslight
I’m not sure I follow what you’re saying. Could you rephrase?
If I am reading correctly, they are just pointing out that people regret all kinds of decisions that have lasting impact on life. To try to say that trans people in particular need to be “protected” from transition because of possible regret is acting as though that regret is uniquely bad, which isn’t the case. Hence why it would be gaslighting.
Ah yea, I thought the author did a great job touching on that
Can you maybe provide some quotes where you are seeing this? It reads to me more as someone who is coming to terms with not really being comfortable anywhere, and thinks that should be “okay” too. I didn’t see anything about protecting people, or that they had regret, but maybe I did not read some part of it close enough.
Yes thanks that’s what I was saying
It seemed to me like they perceived that some people to be outraged by people who change their mind and were advocating that all decisions should be safe.
That is not wanting people outraged, that is being afraid of outrage.
We’re largely in agreement. Read my comment and replace ”they" with anti-trans rights folk
That makes much more sense. :)