Many UK TERFs are sold on the transhumanist angle. Helen Joyce is one of the leaders of TERF island, and dedicates a chapter of her book Trans to discussing The Matrix and transhumanism, referencing Rothblatt and From Transgender to Transhuman. Transactivists have seized on this to accuse Helen Joyce of pushing anti-semitic conspiracy theories as part of their MO to throw as much neovaginal fluid at the wall in the hope that something sticks.
It came as a surprise reading about this. I came of age in the cyberpunk-infused 90s, and thought transhumanism was about replacing your arm with a machine gun, or installing a datajack in your skull. I don't recall any mention of getting your penis inverted and taking drugs so you can dribble hormone cocktails from your nipples.
I think the UK TERFs I saw mocking the transhumanism connection were Jane Claire Jones and her obnoxious ilk. I think it was her vanity project magazine The Radical Notion that had an article where they outright called Jennifer Bilek an anti-semite. The anti-semite accusations towards Bilek have been thrown around online by a few other TERFs, I've seen. They love using that one any time a woman criticizes the transhumanist aspect of this.
Jennifer Bilek is worth a billion of Jane Claire Jones and her drones. Bilek goes about investigating trannyism the right way. You follow the money.
This thread has some fucking legs to it.
What has your personal interaction with troons irl been? Me personally I tend to see that these individuals are poorly adjusted and just simply lack any sort of emotional maturity and discipline.
One of my closest high school friends trooned out in his 20s. We were actually living together at the time when he started getting some titty skittles. This was like 2010 or 2011. Before that, he grew up really conservative, his folks were actually in one of those doomsday type cults in Montana, but moved to where I live in the very late 90s. He was closeted for a long while. I knew, and he was open with me, and maybe a couple other people, but that was it for along time until getting out of high school. He came out, becoming a very typical gay man, but harmless. The beginning of the trooning was the type of stuff you typically hear. Trying on his moms shoes, etc. He also flirted with drag for a year or so before finally deciding to troon.
Eventually, he moved out, got his own place, and we lost contact. Last time I talked to him online, he had his implants, and he willingly showed me his bare boobs. He does fetish pics now I think?
Also, when he worked at a makeup store, my mom, aunt, and cousin all noted how bitchy he had become since transing. That definitely makes me believe they either become miserable, or, for the men, adopt the most stereotypical mean girls personality aspects because they are males and that's how they think women act.