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Today’s anti-trans activism is just old-fashioned reaction all dressed up
Ten Tell-Tale Signs
If you’ve been following the increasingly frenzied attacks by anti-trans ideologues on trans people, you will likely, by now, have spotted a certain disconnect between their claims to represent some sort of actual progressive politics and reality. In fact, whether you consider ideology, tactics or funding, there is scarcely a wafer of difference between transphobes and Men’s Rights Activists. Still not convinced? Here is a handy guide.
According to Nietzsche: “if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you”.
More colloquially, it was Orwell who, in the closing lines of Animal Farm, warned starkly of the dangers of assimilation. The pigs — at the beginning of his story, idealistic revolutionaries eventually sold out to those they revolted against.
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
Meanwhile, over in transphobia central a somewhat similar process appears to be at work. Here are ten tell-tale signs that the anti-trans are now scarcely distinguishable from Men’s Rights Activists (MRAs).
