I read this and wanted to make sure it gets to as many people as possible. I hope the author won’t mind me republishing it. I personally don’t know if it would work on someone like Josie Long/Billy Bragg/Jon Ronson, because they’re people who really have beclowned themselves publicly for so long that I’m not sure there’s a way back for them. But if you have a friend who’s willing to listen, and hasn’t yet buried themselves alive in nonsense, this could be useful.
I immigrated to Canada 10 yrs ago, and every friend I made upon arrival was woke. After voicing my support for JK last year, most of my friendships were hanging in the balance; therefore, it was a case of peak them or lose them all.
So I met with each friend in person & talked it through. I always follow the same steps:
1. A detailed description of autogynephilia. This is hugely successful by itself. They must understand that approx 80% of ‘transwomen’ are heterosexual men aroused by the idea of themselves as women
I have an AGP folder on my phone for this purpose. After I've described the fetish in detail, I show them the evidence because I know they are still imagining an effeminate, post-op, passing transwoman. No progress can be made if they're picturing Hayley Cropper.
Then I ask them if they really believe a man who has spent decades masturbating while wearing women's clothing is really a woman, the same as their own mother. And should he really be as entitled to access women's spaces as their mother/grandmother? The answer is always no.
2. Next comes the concept of the male lesbian. All decent people are disgusted by this. Remember, they support trans rights because they think it's the next gay rights. You have to show them how wrong they are. You must show them how deeply homophobic the trans movement is.
Again, I have a male lesbian folder, and I show them the most ridiculous examples. Remind them these are heterosexual men with a fetish who believe themselves to be lesbians. I also point out that lesbians are being banned from lesbian dating apps for stating females only.
Then I follow up with explaining rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD), the social contagion and the role the internet plays in it, and the recklessness of the medical community. I have visuals like these of the spike in numbers saved on my phone to whip out at this point.
If they're parents, I tell them to imagine their child suddenly announcing they're trans. To imagine being forbidden to use their daughter's name, to imagine watching as she sacrifices her fertility and body parts, knowing it's wrong for her but being powerless to stop it.
I've usually peaked them by now, but an explanation about the harm of self-ID is worth it. How male criminals are identifying as women and being moved to women's prisons. How women and girls no longer have the privacy and safety of female-only changing rooms.
Then shelters. I make sure to speak the language of the woke: point out their "privilege". How they'll never find themselves in a shelter, so it's understandable that from their comfortable position they haven't thought about vulnerable women forced to share spaces with men.
With this approach, I have a 100% success rate. I've peaked people who had pronouns in the bio, who were always chanting transwomen are women, and who thought TERFs were evil. I firmly believe anyone can be peaked if you can just get them to listen.
Interesting read if only to remind oneself (must adopt that as my pronoun) of the sheer stupidity of the situation. Not sure it would work on my committed lefty friends who quite simply can’t hear or aren’t allowed to listen to information that they identify as ‘right wing’ or coming ‘from the right’. I no longer bother trying to peak them but this woman is right, it’s fatally undermined my friendships. When you no longer see people you once respected as rational, you kind of drift apart and you look at everything they say through the lens of ‘Yeah, but you believe men are sometimes women so...’
I love this guide - works almost every time. Only unsuccessful when receiver of info refuses to accept what you say is true