So, the only way to support trans people is to lie to their faces. I see.

If your friend says nothing to you about besides “I’m happy for you and I support you” no matter what you say, that person is not your friend and they do not care if you live or die.

Is there a Freudian slip in this bad art?

First one the guy looks like he's being sarcastic.

Second and third they have the WTF expression.

The last one, Vesper looks like trolling and the woman is dissociating.

They have the “wtf, you idiot?” expressions on the ‘supportive friend’ just perfect, at least. Lady at the bottom is even rolling one eye in despair.

Don’t question anyone ever though. True friends just let their mates blunder from one horrific decision to another with nary a comment other than to sit back and laugh, right?

So now we're not even allowed to THINK heretical thoughts even if we validate these assholes IRL!? We're not allowed to express concerns about the medical consequences of binding or testosterone? Or to tell our idiot friend that they/them is a nonsense pronoun for a singular person and that "Vesper" is a stupid fucking name!?

This is why no sane person wants to be friends with or hire these people. They're EXHAUSTING!

"Stop thinking and repeat this mantra" at it again.

LMAO @the lady on the left in the last panel. She looks like she decided to huff compressed air to escape from her annoying ass friend

Mind control and suppression of critical thinking

I'm amazed that someone could draw a comic of this and not see how wrong it is. The top one alone says volumes.

This is a woman feeling worried about her close female friend starting something as drastic as being pumped with experimental levels of testosterone. This is a life-changing regimen that people are NOT properly informed about, both in the primary effects and the side effects, and everyone knows that and pretends it doesn't happen. The patient is gambling with the rest of her life.

Or maybe this woman would even say "his" life. Even a lot of people perfectly willing to use someone's personal pronouns should be able to admit that at least some of that worrying stuff is true. And surely this woman feels she has a duty as a true friend to make sure her friend is in a good mental state for this because of how truly life-alrering this path is.

There's trusting other people's judgment and then there's just smiling and cheering on all the red flags because...well, we were told again and again to trust people when they say the flags aren't red, and pretend these people are being effortlessly weeded out by some super-reliable screening process that these hysterical people would never allow to exist in any form anyway.

And yes, I said "hysterical" on a radfem site, but I did it for a reason. This is the kind of "mass hysteria" event that WE as women are always seen as responsible for, but as you can see from this, it's a potential in humanity as a whole. We as women are taught that we all have this hysteria by nature inside of us waiting to burst out in fits of drama, whereas men are mostly immune to it, with a few emasculated exceptions.

Surprise, they easily made it look like only women are subject to the condition men cruelly named after us, used to punish us, and used to remove us from our families. Why? Half the time because someone's husband got sick of the wife he kept constantly pregnant because she had been having thoughts and feelings lately. "Her son died in her arms and she's in fits. Get her away from me and electrocute her or something."

Men signed away women's lives for this vague blanket diagnosis, while THEIR instances of mass hysteria - and I will call it hysteria because they deserve to lie in the bed they themselves made by naming it that - doesn't get called hysteria when we look back at it in the history books. It gets called a war, a cultural shift, and/or goddamn stunning and goddamn brave.

Men in power make things happen when they catch some goofy social contagion. They shift cultural tectonic plates with their wild tantrums, and force everyone with actual violence to play along so it doesn't die as a silly little caprice like the dancing plague - the male rulers get involved and it's a new freaking religion or whatever and everyone in the realm has to convert now.

The modern trans movement would have died before it left Tumblr and their endless stream of multicolored pride flag vomit if it had stayed in the hands of the TIFs. It was when the incomparably beautiful and amazing and inspirational trans women came into the picture that it caught the attention of men in power.

If we ever get a TIM president in the US, it's all going to be over because now it is an officially stamped male hysteria and male hysteria, rather than the garden variety vapors, gets thrusted into high places, where it founds empires and moves mountains. (Think Emperor Constantine.) Male hysteria gets people executed. It launches genocides. But if they can, they'll still put 100% of the blame on some woman who put all the males into save the princess mode - a state in which solely women can effortlessly put them - where they can't be accountable for their actions.

It'll be doomed long before it gets to the TIM president point, but that'll be when it reaches theocracy levels. That's when we'll see the true potential of, not trans ideology, but the wave of social madness behind it. And if you think a TIM couldn't be elected, remember that even a man who showed no signs before being elected could publicly announce transition in office. Can you imagine the chaos and upheaval that would cause no matter the sincerity or lack thereof or how anyone tried to handle it afterward? Maybe it sounds crazy, but I don't put it past powerful men to use this kind of thing to destabilize the power structure to their advantage.

But that's not necessarily the trajectory. Hopefully it'll die a quiet death instead. Kind of looks like it eventually might peter out.

But even today and now with a cis scum president, this movement is only taken seriously because men have taken it over. It gets even more meta when you realize that we are now expected to smother TIMs with love and support as they brazenly mock us with vapidly contrived fits of drama so they can pop a euphoria boner over their "female hysteria" RP. They act exactly like teenage boys no matter their age, and regardless of what we are thinking, we all have to say, "I'm so happy for you and I support you!" and furtively look for ways to slowly and subtly extricate ourselves from their presence without setting them off.

And the person that made this comic did so as an unironic how-to. These people still cannot see why and how this is dystopian even when they make comics displaying how dystopian it is.

Anyway, as you can probably guess, I smoked some weed earlier and felt really smart all of a sudden and was convinced that everyone needs to read my every miniscule thought - sorry! - but I hope some of that was actually worthwhile and comprehensible. I'd certainly feel wasteful getting rid of it.

tl;dr this woman should be able to ask her friend if she's sure about starting T. It's a beyond reasonable and compassionate question no matter your stance on the current male hysteria wave.

Why does "queer" mean ugly 😭

So their definition of a friend is a toy voice box?

I like the girl in the last panel--she's cross-eyed from trying to hold in her real feelings!

If you don't clown your friends for shitty name changes, are you really even friends.

How to actually support trans folks:

Suppress what you're actually thinking and feeling and instead repeat this mantra like an automaton.

Why would I be happy after someone tells me how much they hate themselves

⚠️THOUGHT CRIMES DETECTED!⚠️

Vesper looks like she/he/it is about to let us know that there is no war in Ba Sing Se.

How to actually support "trans folks":

You have a mental illness, and you should see a competent psychiatrist as soon as possible.

"You're a twanzfobe! REEEEEEE""

In other words, lie to them.

How to AcKtuALLLy make sure no one wants you in their life.

"How to actually support trans folks: play along with their lies!"

🙄😒