RE: The whole debate about "True" trans and "Fake" trans.
My last post was pretty much about the argument. Imo, there are the distinctions between the predators and people with genuine dysphoria, but but the idea of transgender identity is formed on falsehood in the first place. If we get rid of trans identification, we thwart the predators and at the same time people with dysphoria would be getting a real psychological help instead of Frankenstein butcher job.
Unfortunately people see transgenderism/ gender dysphoria as a illness rather than a symptom. Imo there are underlying conditions causing transness, in social norms of 'failed women/men' ala HTST, or depression that leads to a sort of suicide of their old self. By switching genders, they feel the slate is wiped clean, and they don't have to view their past as a failure and feel they can change. And lastly, the pervy porn-addicts who fetishise womenhood as perfection. They read hentai with futanari railing women because who wants to look at man-ass, and either self-insert as the futanari or it just becomes normalized to them. This last one can really be seen in a comparison to those who do something just as perverse, scat fetishists. It must take a long time jacking it to porn of scat without the nose or taste, before that positive association overrides the senses repulsion to scat IRL.
I've gone off topic, but my point is that because transness is viewed as a monolith, it can't be understood by research. We won't be able to explore these mental illnesses and the transition they cause and minimize that pain. Because admitting that being trans is not a roll of the dice from the womb or in genetics means that transness is a product of your environment growing up. So it could be minimized before someone becomes trans, so they can lead a more happy cis life. Which trans activists would say is conversion therapy.
I'm not sure that's it. There's definitely a lot of peer pressure to fuck TIFs within the gay community and a lot of gays will get on their soapbox about validating how some men have pussies.
I don't really know much about the gay/lesbian community, but from my own interactions, isnt the gay community a lot more closed off than the lesbian? there is definitely a subset of gay guys who don't align with LGBT communities and just use Grindr/gay clubs for any pressing needs.
Personally I think it's largely the same women who have always fetishized homosexuality and have consoomed yaoi and fanfiction their entire lives going one step further to co-opt the gays by attempting to become one themselves and forcing themselves onto men who don't want them. Essentially the same as we're seeing with AGPs, but something that seldom gets talked about.
I think you are right but wrong, I don't think there's an intentional co-opting. Engaging in porn requires a self-insert unless you are into cuckolding. Power level, I never thought I self-inserted in porn, but I noticed I've been turned off certain scenes solely because I didn't like the guy plowing the hot girl I was into. I couldn't imagine me being him. So maybe there's a subconscious self-insert.
With normal porn, the worst that happens is you are comparing yourself to some coked pornstar or dehydrated-for-vasculature Johnny Sins. And people do talk about anorexia and body builder dysmorphia like synthol abuse based on these unrealistic standards. So it seems fair futanari/yaoi could trigger the same dysmorphia effect.
I wouldn't exactly discount a roided out dyke being able to take on a man physically to force an encounter, especially if there's mental/emotional abuse already in play. But I think that starts leading into a bit of a bigger topic.
Excusing all genderbendering, this is just the Duluth model right? But yeah, it's more when you are socialized as a guy, you gotta fight for things you want more idk. Women socialisation feels more 'social' where you form cliques/networks to get what you want in a more passive way, hence the constant building of new organisations that aren't trans spaces, rather than just barring them from the originals.