Does she truly believe it? Or is she just "being kind"?
Oh she really believes it... To a certain extent.
I've caught her TERFing on sports and prisons right from the start.
But she's also saying that transwomen can be lesbians and she could date one... As long as she never had to touch the penis (she's gay). How I did not laugh during THAT conversation IDK. It's called homosexuality, not homodating.
I had a very long conversation with her last week and she was literally quoting the trans activists playbook, chapter and verse. Started off by saying what is a woman, waffled on about intersex, came out with the bogus suicide rates etc.
Most telling was when I mentioned child desistence she rattled of an adult detransition stat.. which is something I've noticed TRAs do all the time. They arent the same thing. She also came out with 'its not a social contagion' and 'its because there's more acceptance'. I'm going to give that one a couple of years and come back to it to see how it's held up.
She's getting all this crap off internet forums, it like listening to a cult member recite their holy text.
I suspect the cognitive dissonance will peak her in the end, if not the lawsuits and the exposés on the young women detransitioners and the Tavistock that we're going to see on the BBC in three or so years.
Ugh how do you deal with that? I would get so frustrated. I need to figure out how to talk to my son about gender crap and I've kinda been putting it off
Patience, and about five years of experience arguing with TRAs helped me go through this with her. Last year she screamed at me, we're now having a heated but civil discussion.
She recites thier crap practically verbatim, right down to swapping an adult detransition study into a discussion on child desistence. I'm trained to spot that now.
No surprise there.
No one outside of extreme TRA circles actually believes it's possible to transform into the opposite sex.