Welcome to the itsafetish circle! We document examples of fetishism (primarily autogynephilia) within the trans community and discuss implications from a feminist perspective! We typically use Blanchard's typology of transsexualism as our framework.
The Rules:
Mods may remove comments and posts at her own discretion to help ensure that this community is conducive to being women-centered and maintains a healthy amount of critical analysis & intellectual curiosity. The following rules are in addition to the site wide rules.
1. Be mindful of your words. Do not promote bigotry, encourage violence, or use dehumanizing language.
2. Keep posts on-topic and in spirit with the circle. Flair posts appropriately. Use archive links for social media posts.
3. Content involving or by minors is not allowed.
4. When linking to Google docs, put a warning in title, so that users know prior to clicking.
5. No explicit pornographic material.
6. Censor images that use real women without their consent. Take a generous approach regarding blurring / censoring people who are unrelated to the displays of fetishism.
If you think this looks like what we're seeing in the trans community (and by extension many neoliberal circles) you're not alone.
For further reading: https://freedomofmind.com/bite-model/
Definitely not alone! Funny timing about this. Was just reading through this post yesterday that also is (partly) framed around Singer's BITE model. I actually do agree with the author's conclusion that transgenderism does not qualify as a cult, due to lack of a clear Leader or Leaders that are also venerated, but that it certainly has a lot of cult like aspects & would qualify as a thought reform programme. Author mentions some may argue