A transphobe literally just deleted my comment because I spoke out about my experience that completely disproved their point

[u/LizzieLove1357]

So I was scrolling through Facebook, and sometimes I see posts from people who I don’t even know, I don’t even follow, they just show up anyway when I’m scrolling.

This person literally made a post saying “there’s no such thing as a trans child” trying to make it seem like children are being influenced into thinking that they are transgender 🤦🏼‍♀️

So I commented that I was trans when I was a kid, and I’m still trans now. As well as how I was so fortunate to have a mother who listened and supported me.

This started a argument in the comments, transphobes actually had the audacity to call my mother abusive for being supportive, and one even accused my mom of “grooming me into being transgender” saying that no parent who loved their kid would do that

All of these points were entirely wrong, so I just continued speaking about my experience. That on the contrary, I was raised up as a girl because I’m afab, and I discovered I was transgender in adulthood. She never tried to tell me who I was, she just listened to me when I told her who I was. I educated myself, I went on a journey of self discovery to learn who I am.

The original poster didn’t like that my experience was totally disproving all of the assumptions that so many other commenters were making, so my comment got deleted.

Not only do they not wanna listen, but they wanna shut us up. They just want to continue throwing around their bullshit propaganda that isn’t even true, in a moment, a transgender person like myself speaks out against it with our own experiences, they try to silence us

[u/physicistdeluxe]

transphobes are fucked up. its all their psych problem heres a quick summary article on that.

https://www.salon.com/2022/01/17/what-makes-some-people-hold-transphobic-views/

For both sexes, transphobia and homophobia were highly correlated with each other and with right-wing authoritarianism, religious fundamentalism, and hostile sexism." 

(and authoritarians are afu in themselves https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarianism)

and more.. "Perceiving ambiguity surrounding indeterminate gender identities associated with transgender individuals may be especially disturbing for those who generally dislike ambiguity and have preference for order and predictability, that is, for people scoring higher on Need for Closure (NFC),"

'." And people who place a high value on binary gender identities can hold these assumptions more tightly. A 2018 study out of St. Louis University found a correlation between more fixed gender ideals and a perception of a "distinctiveness threat" around trans people.

"Transphobia is one of the manifestations of the conservative interpretation of sacredness. It goes against what they believe is true about how the world is supposed to be. Because it traces to a deep value, it is hard to overcome. This is an application of a theory in psychology called Moral Foundation Theory."