Is there any equivalent in the gay community for the hatred trannies feel toward detransitioners? How do gays feel about "ex gays"? Do they get their feeling hurt over it or do they just not care about it?
Maybe a little in the 80s/90s/00s, when people became aware of conversion therapy and it got more about saving gays from hell. That's where you got conversion camp stories and even exorcism stories from the most extreme fundamentalists, and that was seen as a threat from what I can tell. The actual ex-gays? Mostly mockery, because they seem to have been seen like all those anti-gay Republicans being caught doing gay things; if they'd had the gif you'd have seen a fuckload of 'Sure, Jan' posts under anything an ex-gay said about being one.
LUGs or Lesbians Until Graduation are still a thing, but you're never allowed to point it out as being a phase anymore. Every lesbian/bisexual woman I knew or was acquainted with in college ended up with men except maybe one. I think the experimental phase is just something more boys are going through now as well.
Plenty of ex-gays did/do. But I think if you are gay and faced with an "ex gay" you know deep down that either they were faking their exclusive homosexuality, or that they are repressing their gayness currently. Because if nothing else, you are secure in the fact that you like dick. If everyone else in the world stopped believing that gays like dick, that might make things more difficult for you, but it would not change the fact that you just love that dick, and you know that.
So you might react with pity or annoyance. But you won't see this generalized panicked cult reaction where they must all shun the heretic before he infects others or leads to too much subversive thinking. Because trannies know deep down that they are faking being the opposite sex, and they need people to keep believing it or else their identity falls apart.
Exactly this, I think. For a gay person, you not being gay doesn't mean they feel any differently about themselves; for a troon, someone else transitioning then regretting it amplifies whatever voice of reality they have telling them that it's all lies. To most gays, ex-gays are either just bisexuals or faggots in denial, so if they have any sense they might be angry at things like actual conversion therapy (not the troon version, which is that not immediately agreeing is the same as locking them up in a mental asylum and electro-shocking them into being 'normal'), but not that someone stopped being gay. Like when troons think misgendering a normal person will hurt them - what do they care? If you're secure in your gender/sexuality, someone telling you different doesn't matter in the slightest.
There is no one to keep the perverts out because all normal people have left and only a few dare to protest the trannies & groomers.
This is what I mean by 'sane gays'. Of course there's insane ones - there's insane everythings. And they've done a good job of driving off the sane ones with their bullshit; it's been talked about numerous times before on the Farms, but it's far easier for the zealots to target other people in a community who aren't 100% on board, because they have a social pressure and real consequences for not quietly going along with it. It's why troons focus most of their anger on women and people who are also on the left but don't buy into their nonsense, because there's no social pressure if they attack someone on the right. If they were as brave and certain as they say, they'd relentlessly go after all the Fedi instances full of people telling them to rope themselves, but you can't bully someone who doesn't give a shit about your opinion
Aren't most ex-gays frauds or groomed into denying their sexuality? IIRC about a decade or two ago, the ex-gay poster boy for Focus on the Family cut ties with them and apologised for pushing dubious claims from the organisation that conversion therapy was an actual cure for being gay. And now he's a happy, out and proud gay guy with a partner to boot.
Someone like that is exactly why gays wouldn't be threatened by ex-gays. He was fooling himself, he knew it for years, pretty much everyone else knew it for years, and eventually came clean. Like Shirley Phelps-Roper - or was it Megan? Maybe both - who both left their God Hates Fags family. It's up to the individual whether they can forgive them for their previous actions or not. Nowadays the mob would never forgive them, but they both stopped what they were doing before Twitter became such the collection of the dregs of humanity that it is now. Both of them were homophobic, both of them recanted, neither of them were existential threats to the very concept of gayness like a detransitioner is to every troon who worries that could be them.
Tl;dr: No, because gays know they're gay - other people's choices doesn't change that. Troons have to work fucking hard to even get moments of 'gender euphoria' where they can silence the bit of them which tells them they're wrong. They are not at all the same.
