When I was growing up, it was pretty standard for people to talk about gay folks as having been "recruited" or "confused" by people w an agenda. Now you have some assholes claiming the trans community is recruiting away lesbians. This is similarly about a desire to control people
When I was young and involved with another young woman, we knew that if any of our parents got wind, there would be a stated or unstated assumption that one of us was "influencing" the other to adopt an identity. We knew to expect it because it was that socially predictable.
And here people are doing the same thing to young trans folks who are coming into their identity. Displeased that they are failing to conform, a supposedly corrupting influence is blamed -- and in the process, agency and self discovery are erased. Such predictable bullshit.
Some of us should know better.
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