^ I thought I'd never see this viewpoint again on Voat!  I'm so used to "trannies are delusional, hormones cause suicide, they need to Get Help" being the only opinion in a thread, it's so refreshing to not have to be the lone dissenter in the thread.  Asking for evidence where talking to a shrink cured dysphoria goes like this: "you think people who cut off their penises aren't mentally ill?  ShitArchon, you're a cuck."  Contrast with the lively debate on /pol/.  How to spot the fakes: they're the ones crying most loudly that they're trans and make no effort to pass. They're the ones I don't respect and unfortunately, they're the ones who've suckered themselves to the LGBT community. Their actions shit on genuine transgender people who quietly transition and go on with their lives, who don't use their condition as a cudgel to beat others.  It's exactly how TERFs and various right-wing factions get recruits who support gatekeeping the shit out of normal trans people.   Said lolcows (who do a far worse job at looking androgynous than regular straight men from the 70s) make it easy for TERFs to get people to believe bullshit like "puberty-blockers are child abuse, Leelah Alcorn's parents are good parents" (I've seen that one on RightWingLGBT) and "autogynephiles support sterilizing gay kids like Jazz Jennings to cover for their fetish," just like how "fellow white people" SJWs make it easy for ClownWorldWar posters to get people to believe Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is a legitimate document and not a blatant plagiarism of Dialogue of Montesquieu and Machiavelli in Hell.  That isn't the case with dysphoric trans people who happen to be SJWs like Brianna Wu, Chelsea "punch Nazis" Manning and, to a lesser degree, ContraPoints. You know how I know this?  Because I've read lots of threads on GenderCritical, Mumsnet, and "trans widow" blogs.  Censorship, shaming, and most of all brutish-looking fetishist lolcows being accepted as "the voice of the trans community" only served to help them believe bullshit conspiracy theories like "patriarchal sexist men support trannies" and "evangelical Christians want to sterilize gay kids by transitioning them."    People on Kiwi Farms, ClownWorldWar, etc. are exposed to nothing but Jonathan Yaniv et. al. they never get to see people like Gabrielle on TransGeneration who are normal and have actual dysphoria.  I had an active Kiwi Farms account in 2014, came back in 2018, and the forum went from being truscum to being majority TERF and Blanchardian.  Exhibit A of Blanchardianism: all the Kiwi Farms commenters upset that Contra got hormones from an informed-consent clinic instead of everyone being forced to "Real Life Test" for a year before getting hormones.  That kind of bias towards normal trans people didn't happen on 2014-2016 Kiwi Farms.  The Stefoknee Wolscht thread makes a point of distinguishing between Wolscht (who stopped hormones because they interfered with an erection) and actual trans people.