When I think about the spread of gender ideology, I actually, I liken it a lot to another internet cult of the 2010s, which would have been ISIS.

Which would have been ISIS.

Hello, hello, and welcome back to A BitFruity. I'm Matt Bernstein. I'm so happy that you're here.

About five months ago, I woke up to a tweet. Kat, would you like to read the tweet? You have not seen this.

Tomorrow marks my one year anniversary of not wearing a breastbinder. On October 7th, 2023, I awoke to a siren. I didn't have enough time to squeeze myself into the barbaric breast squashing device I had used to pass as a man. I had only enough time to run to a bomb shelter. Wait, oh, are they from Israel?

They were living in Israel at the time, yes. Okay. Do you see where this is going now? Yes, okay.

I was like, why are they running to, okay, all right. Yep, yep, This is about to be as ridiculous as you think it's going to be.

But let me not get ahead of myself.

I thought I'd seen it all.

But Hamas made me detransition.

Felt like an AI-generated attempt to make me lose my mind in yet another new and ever more

creative way.

The tweet came from a user called

Maya Poet, someone I've never heard of at this point, but someone whose lore I would quickly

become enveloped in. This is going to be an episode about detransitioners or people who once

identified as transgender may have gone through various steps of socially

and or medically transitioning genders, and then at some point decided, you know, this isn't for me.

While rare, first of all, detransition is something that happens. And I first and foremost just want

to say that I think detransitioners deserve support, societally, medically.

They deserve to have their stories heard, not because they're at odds with the life-saving,

gender-affirming care that trans people need. In fact, I think that they can make it better,

because the perspectives of the relatively small number of people who don't ultimately pursue

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