The entire gender identity industry is nothing other than a narcissistic abuser.
https://karadansky.substack.com/p/the-gender-identity-industry-is-a-2e5
"Anyone who has been in an abusive domestic relationship can recognize the patterns (I am speaking here primarily about domestic relationships between consenting adults, not parent/child abusive relationships, which involve different dynamics). At first, we don’t realize that the relationship is abusive, because we don’t want to believe it. We want to think the person loves us and is simply flawed. Often, we feel stupid for remaining in a relationship that is harming us. I felt this way for years.
It was only when the abuse escalated to being physical that I finally realized that something was very wrong, and that I ought to have been trusting my intuition the entire time. I wasn’t entirely sure what to make of the whole situation, so I called a domestic abuse hotline. After I explained the situation, the hotline woman told me that while she couldn’t tell me what to do, the abuse was likely to escalate, and I needed to contemplate my options. I wailed, “How could this happen? I am a strong and independent woman! I am a second-wave feminist!” She said, “Don’t blame yourself. These guys are master manipulators.” She was right. After a few more months of awakening and planning, I got out.
Waking up to the reality of the gender identity industry is exactly like this kind of waking up. Because the entire enterprise of “gender identity” is one giant narcissistic abuser. Or, in the words of Graham Linehan, “[t]he fad of gender identity is an undistilled, misogynistic sadism.” And all of humanity is its targeted victim. Women and girls are the hardest hit; it has gotten so bad that in some countries, rape victims are now required to refer to our rapists as “she” in court. But in the end, none of us will be spared.
This post is not about how the sterilization and castration of children’s healthy bodies constitutes child abuse, though it certainly does. Instead, this post is about how the gender identity industry has been as successful as it has because it has gone about its business by lying, manipulating, and psychologically abusing all of society.
The Nature of Abuse
Our society’s relationship with the industry carries all of the hallmarks of abuse:
Exercising control (those who are even slightly critical of the industry are told that discussion is not permitted);
Separating victims from friends and family (most of us have lost friends and family members due to our criticism of the industry);
Name-calling (resorting to “TERF,” “fascist,” “Nazi,” etc.);
Threats of physical harm (we have all seen the threats that J.K. Rowling received when she dared to speak out in defense of women’s sex-based rights, and most of us have received similar threats).
Perhaps the most effective tool that the industry uses to abuse our society is gaslighting, which is defined as manipulating someone by psychological means into questioning their own sanity.
I understand gaslighting because my ex used to do it to me. I didn’t have the vocabulary for it at that time. But the relationship was plagued with episodes that I would refer to as “’Twilight Zone’ moments.” He would say things that sounded so counter to everything that I knew to be true that I felt like I was living in an episode of “Twilight Zone.” When I learned that there was a term for that phenomenon, light bulbs went off and everything made sense.
The industry’s gaslighting of society started with its insistence on the notion that words like “gender identity,” “transgender,” “trans woman,” “trans man,” “non-binary,” etc., have meanings that derive from material reality. They do not. And yet, at one point or another, most of us (not all) were willing to believe that they do. The industry’s success in getting society to accept these concepts seems astonishing, until we realize that it succeeded largely through gaslighting – any attempt to question these terms is met with such insults and manipulation that many of us started to question our own sanity."
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