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I definitely do think all of those things contribute. I center the discussion around feminism because feminism is supposed to be the solution that young women turn to feel empowered over misogyny and predation, and that makes it all the more important to course correct when it fails at being that.I agree hypersexualization of women contributes to the trans phenomenom. I'm sorry you were raped. So why do you not blame porn, or predatory men, or misogynists who expect women to be bimbos, as any contributing factors? You go straight to blaming feminism and women as the cause. I've said on here before that one thing FTMs and MTFs have in common is that they hate women. Its kinda tiring
In being mainstreamed and commercialized, feminism has been allowed to become appropriated by sexist and other counterproductive interests. I think the most detrimental aspects of these are the emphasis on hypersexuality and hyperfemininity, the wokescolding intellectual elitism that has infested many social movements with valuable causes at their core, and the fearmongering that is used to keep women afraid without actually making them feel like there are solutions to their problems.
I don't think these weakspots of third wave feminism are the only cause of teen girls falling down the trans rabbithole, but I do feel it's a really understated part of the phenomenon. I think it's being underestimated how much some of the current trends in feminism are alienating young girls and pushing them away from a movement that otherwise might benefit them.
What I saw repeatedly was scared and hurt young girls with very gendered issues looking to feminism for answers, not finding what they found or disliking what they found, and then turning to gender ideology, which conveniently had all the answers laid out for them.
I don't think this means feminism as a whole is to blame—I just think current issues in the feminist movement of the last decade or two are contributing to a weird feminism-to-troonism pipeline for a lot of girls.