I recently re-lost the same friend to the trans cult and I'm so angry and sad. I've been avoiding looking at the chat log on Tumblr for this second time she split, but today I decided to be reckless and I screencapped it so everyone else could see it. I want to believe I'm not being unreasonable. (I'm green, she's pink.)
She acts like I'm just transphobic for funsies or whatever, like I saw an infographic on facebook and got spooked, like my concern for her well-being is just me attacking her because I'm a bigoted bully. She can't recognize how she hurt
me as a friend by just up and vanishing the first time I disagreed with her, not letting me even respond or explain myself after she lashed out at me for being worried, AND NOW SHE'S DONE IT
AGAIN.
We went months without talking and she finally came back to the Internet, and things were okay for a little while! I sent her posts and we had small, brief conversations on Tumblr, but she brought up the whole trans topic again and just wouldn't let it be something we disagree on. We disagree on fucking religion and politics, but
this is where she draws the line??
And she's so cavalier about the whole thing that it absolutely doesn't inspire any confidence that she's taking this sincerely. If she could read her words through my eyes she'd know why I can't get behind this. "Hey Chromeo, I joined a body mod cult that preaches self-harm, sexual degeneracy, and has a 41% death rate! They've already helped me get on off-label cancer medication to permanently damage my body! Isn't that fantastic??" NO?? Anyone who genuinely cares about you should be horrified! As horrified as if you'd just joined Scientology or some shit! All she wants is someone who will blindly listen and accept every self-destructive decision she makes, and that's not a friend. That's a puppet.
(plus the whole "I WANT to go bald and look like my dad" just came out of nowhere, like...I never mentioned any of that? I don't care what she looks like, we're online friends for god's sake, who the fuck even brought that up? Cope, much???)
I don't think she'll come back a third time, but if she does...I think I'm gonna block her first. I can't keep thinking my friend's returned only to get an update on her self-destruction before she slaps my feelings in the face. I hate this trans cult, I hope some day it all comes crashing down and it stops taking my friends away from me.