How Anti-fujoshi Connect to Anti-trans Narratives

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[Visual examples such as screen shots and other documentation of these connections are available below and at these links:

*Google Drive Archive: Contains all anti-fujoshi posts including anti-trans posts

*Archive of screenshots on IMGUR (Anti-trans posts only)

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Understanding how fujoshi as a term in English fandom came to be both conflated with trans identity and anti-LBGTQ+ ideology is a key point of understanding this entire anti-BL phenomenon. Much of this demonization was deliberate, and some of the earliest known posts applying anti-trans ideology to the topic of BL appeared on Tumblr around 2015. As one of these (now deactivated) anti-fujoshi blogs Purge-Anti-Antis admitted: 

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When anti fujoshis were just a handful of Tumblr folk […] We knew how many LGBT fags read yaoi. I hate fujoshi but we’re even more astounded how [social justice warriors] [took] our statements as some pro LGBT agenda […] [and] swallowed our thinly veiled gender critical statements […] We’re ‘transphobic’ (Anti-Fujoshi 2022).

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• So, what are ‘gender critical’ statements? Overall, gender criticals believe there are only two genders: male and female, and a person’s gender solely aligns with their assigned sex at birth and cannot be changed (Ovarit 2022). Anything that does not adhere to this binary absolute, such as transgender identity specifically, is considered a paraphilia and mental defect (Blanchard, 1991). As for how large these social groups can become online, the subreddit ‘GenderCritical’ founded in 2013 housed approximately 64,800 members with a reported 27,333 daily active users (Reddit Statistic, 2020) before being shut down in 2020 for promoting hate speech. Other Subreddits affiliated with GenderCritical included: ‘Anti-Kink,’ ‘Anti-Pornography,’ and ‘Radical Feminists’ (GenderCritical 2020). As is evident with the listed affiliates, gender critical groups often center around being critical of gender identity, sexual expression, and pornography; things which they feel are intrinsically linked to the development of transgender identity. Gender criticals believe that pornography not only damages people’s minds but also encourages sexual abuse in the real-world (Ziv 2015). They often refer to trans people as ‘porn sick’ (NewMa, Ovarit, 2021) which is a term they use to categorize someone as being so obsessed with pornography that they supposedly have a distorted view of reality (Porn Sick 2018) (i.e., trans people want to make their bodies into the image of their pornographic sexual fantasy).

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• While gender criticals attempt to present their beliefs legitimately, many of their arguments fall apart in the face of broader scientific research. The UK based, ‘Gender Critical Academics’ (GCA) is affiliated with at least 2,836 individuals from academic institutions. Their site houses a resource page designed for those ‘interested in gender critical or radical feminist perspectives’ (GC Academia 2022). Many of the provided resources, however, promote anti-LGBTQ+ conversion therapy while housing broad statements about transgender identity that lack comprehensive scientific support.

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• One resource, ‘Transgender Trend’ (2022) claims there are no comprehensive studies on the suicide rate of trans youth, and that trans identity is a ‘very new phenomenon […] based on no credible scientific research.’ They go on to propose that trans identity is an attention seeking mechanism children employ to afford them ‘great rewards […] in terms of becoming the center of attention and achieving special status among parents, teachers and peers.’ Contrarily, official research has shown trans youth to be among the highest demographics at risk for suicide due to factors such as family neglect and internalized self-stigma (Austin, 2022).

• Given the lack of scientific support, many for gender criticals have resorted to covert methods to be heard. This often involves diluting and misrepresenting their messages to appear more acceptable to outsiders. The group Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) wrote a 2022 article detailing how avoiding terms like ‘deluded’ and ‘mentally ill’ when discussing trans people allowed them ‘unbarred’ access to grow their platform.

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• Another term for this method of self-censoring is ‘Crypto Terfing’ (MissMenses, Ovarit, 2022) with TERF being a contentious acronym for ‘Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist’. As explained by self-proclaimed ‘cryptoterfs’, ‘crypto’ stands for hidden and means someone who is secretly gender critical or a radical feminist (MissMenses 2022). One ex-cryptoterf, Ky Schevers (2021) described how such individuals ‘intentionally moderate’ their views to appear less threatening and reach the largest possible audience. They worked to ‘spread the idea that trans identity […] could be motivated by trauma and internalized misogyny’ which included infiltrating pro-trans groups. Cryptoterfs amongst Schevers would joke about ‘running psy-ops’ in these groups ‘to change what ideas were acceptable to talk about in those spaces.’ For instance, on gender critical hub Ovarit, women in one such message board shared their methods of dissemination. Those with trans friends or family described how they worked to instill doubts in their minds. Others detailed how they would casually bring up conspiracy theories as factual evidence to pique listeners’ curiosity (MissMenses 2022). Reviewing these posts revealed a widespread culture of deceit and manipulation where the act of disseminating propaganda took upon a game-like quality to members.

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• In terms of fandom, in one specific instance a Tumblr artist boasted that people ‘have no idea how many [cryptoterfs]’ are amongst them.’ She networked with numerous trans activists in ‘2-3 popular fandoms’ and described how she would parrot their beliefs to blend in. She emphasized how these unsuspecting people would buy her art and give her donations, and that she did not plan to ‘stop playing pretend any time soon’ (blossomoranges 2019). Following this pattern, there were numerous posts on Ovarit, Tumblr, and Twitter relating to fandom, fanfiction and anime. Gender criticals would frequently frame Japan as a pedophilic den of iniquity, naming anime, manga and BL specifically as ‘gateway(s)’ to pornography that ‘(cause) mental illness’ (Anti-fujoshi 2023). Discussions surrounding BL media consistently argued that young women who ‘read too much yaoi’ transition to become ‘gay anime boys’ (Anti-fujoshi 2023).

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• Because gender criticals view any gender identity outside of one’s assigned biological sex as illegitimate, trans male BL fans were categorized as heterosexual women. This in turn led anti-trans people to categorize them as fujoshi. Thus, in anti-trans spaces fujoshi became synonymous with trans men. As fujoshi had historically been presented as heterosexual women to begin with, this made the anti-BL propaganda these groups spread even more palatable to outside audiences.

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• As these trans men deemed fujoshi were repeatedly framed as corrupt heterosexual women, LGBTQ+ people lost the original anti-trans context of these gender critical statements. Thus, fujoshi came to be synonymous with being anti-LGBTQ+. While there was minor pushback against such early anti-fujoshi rhetoric, it only visibly began around 2018. There were only a handful of English-speaking individuals who were familiar enough with Japanese queer culture and language to call out this disinformation, but their small-scale pushback was not enough to combat the rapid onset of falsehoods that easily spread soon after.

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"How Language and Anti-trans Narratives are Weaponized to Control the Perception of BL and Fujoshi":

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• The topic of fetishism is key to this discussion as it is intrinsically linked to anti-trans ideology, and a common term cited in fandom discourses surrounding BL. Janice Raymond’s 1979 novel The Transsexual Empire targets transgender women by specifically arguing that trans identity ‘was created by fetishistic males who [seek] to escape into a faux stereotypical femininity’. She argued that just the act of transgender women existing ‘rape[d] women’s bodies by reducing the […] female form to an artifact’ (Raymond 2004). Thus, under these beliefs trans men (fujoshi) become ‘fetishistic’ females who exploit or ‘rape’ the (gay) male form through BL. Additionally, when anti-trans groups mention homophobia in relation to fujoshi, the discussion comes from the belief that gay trans men are heterosexual women. Therefore, gay trans men are framed as ‘homophobic’ straight women who force their way into gay male spaces to demand gay men have sex with them (Anti-fujoshi 2023).

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• Due to English-speaking fandom having a general lack of information surrounding the etymology and cultural context of fujoshi and BL, these terms became easy for anti-trans groups to manipulate and control. This method is known as ‘evaluative conditioning’ (Jones, 2010) and has been commonly used to demonize LGBTQ+ people. Letting go of prejudice is much harder when there is a negative emotional component attached to it (Aronson et al. 2018), and propagandists use this to their benefit. Anti-gay activists in 1950s conservative America were conditioning the public to associate homosexuality with child predation and pedophilia (Mogul, 2011, p. 33). Lesbian separatists in the 1970s accused transgender women of being ‘opportunists,’ ‘infiltrators,’ and ‘rapists’ (Stryker, 2008, p. 131). Such decades old conditioning directed towards these groups persist to this day as conservative politicians in the United States center the modern day ‘groomer’ panic and push anti-LGBTQ+ legislation under the guise of protecting children (Chaves, 2023).

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• This very same conditioning is applied to fujoshi and often done so under the guise of protecting the gay community. The following excerpt from a 2015 gender critical Tumblr blog displays all the previously covered conditioning methods:

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The vast majority of ‘trans women’ who previously lived lives as straight men are actually heterosexual males who fetishize women and lesbians, and like to fancy themselves ‘real women’ in order to aid in their sexual fantasies […] However, there is a growing minority of ‘trans men’ who assimilate into trans status out of fetishizing gay men and homosexuality as straight/bi women […] Many of these young women get their intro into modern trans identities […] from anime and manga communities […] Yaoi manga communities […] a female produced gay porn/romance erotica […] that objectifies gay males from a very stereotypically feminine perspective and typically involves themes of statutory rape, and male-on-male pedophilia […] These yaoi-bois ‘gay trans men’ […] want the long eyelashes, long hair and slim build of a teen boy that looks like and behaves like a stereotypical girl […] The typical yaoi-crazed [female-to-male] wants […] gay men with similar effeminate qualities to see them as male. She wants for gay men to date her because she wants to recreate this yaoi fantasy.

(Tumblr blog Scarlet-void, 2015)

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• The excerpt uses charged terms such as ‘fetishize,’ ‘assimilate’, ‘rape,’ ‘pedophilia,’ ‘crazed,’ and ‘fantasy.’ Trans male BL fans are maligned with sexual predation and delusion while at the same time referred to as ‘boys’ to delegitimize and infantilize their identity as childishly misguided and attention-seeking. Homonationalism then comes to the forefront as queer Asian BL media is maligned with anti-gay objectification, rape, and pedophilia. These kinds of statements are not just coming from random users with minute followings either, established organizations are taking notice. In 2022, An advisor to the international gender critical organization ‘Genspect’ ridiculed and belittled trans men who liked BL as ‘DELUSIONAL’ in a public tweet; the advisor had 51,300 Twitter followers. Another Genspec author with 20,300 Twitter followers wrote an article saying, ‘Let’s talk about “gay trans guys”—formerly known as heterosexual females’ citing ‘early exposure to hardcore pornography’ and BL consumption as like likely cause for trans men transitioning (Mondegreen, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230312133914/https%3A%2F%2Fgenspect.org%2Fseeking-refuge-in-idiosyncratic-sexual-identities-and-yaoi%2F). Gay trans men in fandom are frequently bludgeoned with hate speech and accusations of being ‘fujoshi fetishists’ and pedophiles.

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• As these groups conditioned others to associate fujoshi and BL with negative, emotionally charged concepts many people in English-speaking fandom developed visceral aversions to these topics. With these negative associations, ‘normative conformity’, (i.e., following group behaviors (Aronson et al. 2018)) becomes necessary as those who are not vocally against fujoshi are also at risk of being maligned. By gender critical anti-fujoshi maligning fujoshi and BL with homophobia, fetishism, pedophilia, hyper-sexualization and heterosexual privilege, they were able to rapidly push these terms into having anti-LGBTQ+ notoriety. In English-speaking fandom, fujoshi were now privileged, selfish, heterosexual female invaders incapable of telling proper LGBTQ+ stories, and BL was an insult to gay men that was infecting the world. This aggressive erasure of fujoshi and BL from their original Japanese contexts then further facilitated an environment in which violent behavior towards BL fans became acceptable and even encouraged by pro-LGBTQ+ English-speaking fans.

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 CryptoTERFs self-describing how they disseminate propaganda:

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• "Confessions of a Former “Crypto-TERF”" (2021)

  • "While some of us were more upfront with our views than others, most of us hid what we really thought from many of our friends and acquaintances... If people did show any sign of being receptive to our beliefs, we would share what we thought they would find acceptable but hold back anything they would find too extreme or offensive."

    • https://kyschevers.medium.com/confessions-of-a-former-crypto-terf-e4ed59d4ec82

• "It's Strategy People!"

  • "I'm not a fool. I know that major left leaning media outlet is not going to go full-tilt Abigail Shrier and come to our side of the conversation after a single conversation. What we are trying to do, and what we can do, is to get these people to stop and think, moderate their message, and allow for genuine concern for the children involved to become more important in this conversation [...] I know it’s only the tip of the iceberg. But it’s something. [...] it needs to happen strategically."

    • http://web.archive.org/web/20220616043618/https://pitt.substack.com/p/its-strategy-people?s=r

• "How to Be a Cryptoterf"

  • "Try to get as many degrees of separation as you can from an “out” radfem blog" [...] "Be careful of what you like" [...] "Only reblog basics of radfem theory that have nothing to do with trans people. If you can avoid reblogging ANYTHING with the word trans in it, even better. And honestly? Also be careful with posts that criticize gender even though they’re 100% correct"

    • http://web.archive.org/web/20210211191504/https://rad-octopus.tumblr.com/post/637329682282446848/how-to-be-a-cryptoterf

• "For those who are crypto in TRA social circles, what's it like?"

  • "The key is to simply state things as fact and show zero emotion." "Excellent strategy. I also find slowing down when I speak helps this." "I like to drop little bombs every once in a while to hopefully get them to start digging on their own"

  • http://web.archive.org/web/20220404070941/https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/64684/for-those-who-are-crypto-in-tra-social-circles-what-s-it-like

• "Peaked a psychologist last night who has her first MTF client."

  • "One of the attendees is a psychologist who is working with her first teen who is "transitioning" whose parents are worried. I told her everything: Big pharma push, Transmaxxing, grooming, and so on. She asked for a list of resources for the parents, and below is what I composed (many links are specific to our convo). She was HORRIFIED. It was the most instantaneous and strongest "peak" I have ever seen."

    • http://web.archive.org/web/20220404183000/https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/71150/peaked-a-psychologist-last-night-who-has-her-first-mtf-client-here-is-resource-l

• Documentation of anti-trans groups pushing the idea Trans adults cannot consent until age 25

  • https://twitter.com/JuliaSerano/status/1559735735355260929

• "Crypto on my insta for black lesbian herstory"

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20210905125521/https://ovarit.com/o/Lesbians/17102/crypto-on-my-insta-for-black-lesbian-herstory

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Relevant Articles & Books Discussing Anti-Trans gender critical & radfem origins as well as Trans history in general:

(These sources are provided for readers to have History and Context on what this section is discussing)

• Bassi, Serena; LaFleur, Greta (2022) Introduction: TERFs, Gender-Critical Movements, and Postfascist Feminisms. TSQ 1 August 2022; 9 (3): 311–333.

• Bassi, Serena; LaFleur, Greta (2022) Introduction: Trans-Exclusionary Politics by Other Means. TSQ 1 August 2022; 9 (3): 460–462. doi

• Burns, Katelyn. "The rise of anti-trans “radical” feminists, explained". Vox, September 5, 2019.

• Elster, Mikey (2022) Insidious Concern: Trans Panic and the Limits of Care. TSQ 1 August 2022; 9 (3): 407–424

• Fairchild, Phaylen. "Why Are More Gay Men Turning On Transgender People?" Medium. Nov 5, 2018

• Fernández Romero, Francisco; Mendieta, Andrés (2022) Toward a Trans* Masculine Genealogy in South America. TSQ 1 August 2022; 9 (3): 524–534

• Gwenffrewi, Gina (2022) J. K. Rowling and the Echo Chamber of Secrets. TSQ 1 August 2022; 9 (3): 507–516

• Libby, C. (2022) Sympathy, Fear, Hate: Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism and Evangelical Christianity. TSQ 1; 9 (3): 425–442

• Lofton, Kathryn, (2022) Pulpit of Performative Reason. TSQ 1 August 2022; 9 (3): 443–459

• National LGBTQ Task Force. "(In)validating transgender identities: Progress and trouble in the DSM-5"

• Paasonen, S., Attwood, F., McKee, A., Mercer, J., & Smith, C. (2021), Objectification: On the difference between sex and sexism, New York Routledge, Taylor et Francis Group.

• Pearce, R., Erikainen, S., & Vincent, B. (2020). TERF wars: An introduction. The Sociological Review, 68(4), 677–698. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026120934713

• Schotten, C. Heike (2022) TERFism, Zionism, and Right-Wing Annihilationism: Toward an Internationalist Genealogy of Extinction Phobia. TSQ 1 August 2022; 9 (3): 334–364.

• Serano, Julia. (2016) Articulating Transmisogyny. ( PDF: https://www.juliaserano.com/av/Serano-ArticulatingTransmisogyny.pdf?ref=blog.potate.space )

• Serano, Julia. (2021) Transmisogyny. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies. ( PDF: https://www.juliaserano.com/av/Serano-Transmisogyny.pdf )

• Stryker, Susan. 2008. Transgender history. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press.

• Weiss, Jillian Todd. 2004. “GL vs. BT: The Archaeology of Biphobia and Transphobia within the U.S. Gay and Lesbian Community.” Journal of Bisexuality. January 15, 2004. Vol. 3: 25-55. https://ssrn.com/abstract=1649428.

• Yamada, Hidenobu (2022) GID as an Acceptable Minority; or, The Alliance between Moral Conservatives and “Gender Critical” Feminists in Japan. TSQ 1 August 2022; 9 (3): 501–506

• Zanghellini, A. (2020). Philosophical Problems With the Gender-Critical Feminist Argument Against Trans Inclusion. SAGE Open.

  • PDF: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2158244020927029

• Ziv, Amalia. 2015. Explicit Utopias: Rewriting the Sexual in Women's Pornography. State University of New York Press, Albany.

• Twitter thread on the anti-trans group "Gays Against Groomers" https://twitter.com/WhiteRoseAFA/status/1540722626645082114

  • (Web Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220626111335/https://twitter.com/WhiteRoseAFA/status/1540722626645082114)

• "Inside a Cult - Gender Critical (Part One - Recruitment)" (2022)

  • Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwI6py78gsI

    • This video covers how Gender Critical ideology infiltrates online spaces and affects people. In watching this video there can be many parallels observed in the way Anti-shippers and Anti-Fujoshi behave and reason their beliefs, which (from the below screenshots and webpage links) already are shown to have clear ties to GC members & ideology. [Video Timestamps are available in the video's description.]

• ""Gender Critical" is Not Feminist & Here's Why" (2022)

  • Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-9pxzyunSM&t=516s

    • "Let's have a look at the history of White Feminism, all the way from the fight for women's suffrage, the women's liberation movements of the 60s, up until the present day & the current attacks on women's rights by the Christian Conservative & Far Right; how might the exclusionary tendencies of white feminists mirror the current push against trans rights by so-called "gender criticals"? And why do they keep falling into misogynistic, biological essentialist, sexist dichotomies in order to exclude trans women from their feminism?"

• "The Anti-Trans Disinformation Pipeline" (2022)

  • Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cya2IyZmZOQ

    • "Looking at how The Daily Wire, Matt Walsh, Fox News, Blaire White and others create and generate disinformation campaigns and vilify transgender people as whole." Also covers the connection of Gender Critical and anti-trans groups' connections to white supremacists.

• "Trauma as Terror; The Cult of ‘Radical’ Feminism" (2020)

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20220308105023/https://www.transiness.com/post/trauma-as-terror-the-cult-of-radical-feminism

    • "I’ve spent the last few months processing my time in the ‘radfem’ movement, or as intersectional and actually radical feminists call them, SWERFs and TERFs. My experience was mostly with the prostitution abolitionist side of the movement, but reading Amy Dyess’ story in Pink News today about her experience with the TERF cult, it hit home to me how similar my own experience was, and how insidious the tactics of these people really are. The gaslighting, the suppression of dissent, the skewed, separatist view of the world and the insistence that it is the One Right View are all hallmarks of an ideological cult. The most damaging aspect, for me, was the weaponising of trauma."

• "Drop the T - The Deadly Consequences of Gay Respectability Politics"

  • Video Link: https://youtu.be/6i91PzpWDAM?si=ygeWo32RV891s-Rx
    • "A deep dive documentary on the deadly consequences of gay respectability politics."
    • Provides historical context on the history of the gay liberation movement, Stonewall, and LG vs. BTQ+ respectibility politics

• "Sex and the Revolution"

  • Video Link: https://youtu.be/CUgFQv4ocLI?si=jCeZLDUui7q0Fvaa

    • "Sex. Feminism. Why pleasure is important and why none of us are free unless we all are. Welcome to the revolution, we've brought hummus."

    • Provides historical context into the development of modern censorship, anti-sex, anti-kink, and anti-trans debates within radical feminism.

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Citations for Anti-trans pages that discuss fujoshi, yaoi, BL, anime and Japan:

• (2023) "Seeking Refuge in Idiosyncratic Sexual Identities (And Yaoi)" https://web.archive.org/web/20230312133914/https%3A%2F%2Fgenspect.org%2Fseeking-refuge-in-idiosyncratic-sexual-identities-and-yaoi%2F

• (2015) "The unspoken link between trans-men and fetish."

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20210918201822/https://scarlet-void.tumblr.com/post/123671641599/the-unspoken-link-between-trans-men-and-fetish

• (2015) "I only see teenage girls ID'ing as NB (esp "gay demi-boys / demi-princes"), especially on the fandom side of Tumblr... It feels like the elephant in the room but these users 99% of the time start off as 'yaoi' blogs or blogs that focus heavily on M/M ships in their fandom."

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20210711045448/https%3A%2F%2Fscarlet-void.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F126046449444%2Fin-re-non-binary-identifiers-maybe-its

• "The Fandom-to-Trans/Yaoi-to-Trans pipeline"

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20210419160238/https%3A%2F%2Fovarit.com%2Fo%2FWomen%2F23681%2Fthe-fandom-to-trans-yaoi-to-trans-pipeline

• "The anime/porn to TQ pipeline is real"

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20220728025958/https://ovarit.com/o/TransLogic/90990/the-anime-porn-to-tq-pipeline-is-real

• "My experience with Anime and how it impacted my life"

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20220728032628/https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/92210/my-experience-with-anime-and-how-it-impacted-my-life

• "The description of this study on autoandrophilia or autohomoeroticism sounds very similar to fujoshi don't you think?"

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20210715234446/https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/13639/the-description-of-this-study-on-autoandrophilia-or-autohomoeroticism-sounds-ver

• "They're downright admitting that their aspiration of wanting to be male, is all in *pursuit of their real desire to be "gay anime boys""

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20211101131206/https%3A%2F%2Fovarit.com%2Fo%2FRadfemmery%2F35570%2Fthey-re-downright-admitting-that-their-aspiration-of-wanting-to-be-male-is-all-i

• "TIF Fujoshis"

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20220607014254/https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/92217/tif-fujoshis

• "what’s with anime and being trans?"

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20211102211408/https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/39249/dumb-question-whats-with-anime-and-being-trans

• "Why do anime and hentai turn so many white people trans?

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20210421113740/https%3A%2F%2Fovarit.com%2Fo%2FItsAFetish%2F28009%2Fwhy-do-anime-and-hentai-turn-so-many-white-people-trans

• "Anime and Gender Ideology"

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20211102211608/https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/38435/anime-and-gender-ideology

• "Fujoshits reacting to a female character being added into their BL story"

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20211102212230/https://ovarit.com/o/Radfemmery/36893/internalized-misogyny-of-the-21st-century-fujoshits-reacting-to-a-female-charact

• "A weird fujoshi friend told she wants to be a man..."

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/askgaybros/comments/i0g7qg/a_weird_fujoshi_friend_told_she_wants_to_be_a_man/

• "Don't you hate it when some fujoshis..."

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20210331012148/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Ffujoshicringe%2Fcomments%2Flpapx0%2Fdont_you_hate_it_when%2F

• "Gender Critical and female politics"

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20220225193811/https://lolcow.farm/2X/res/5.html

• "The New Homophobia, Part 1: Trans-lating Woke Bigotry"

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20220225192200/https://robvl.substack.com/p/the-new-homophobia-trans-lating-woke?utm_source=url

• "TERFposting thread #7"

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20220225192852/https://crystal.cafe/b/res/80203.html

• (Anti-sex general) "I have an idea for fighting kink culture."

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20210421113155/https%3A%2F%2Fovarit.com%2Fo%2FAntiKink%2F26020%2Fi-have-an-idea-for-fighting-kink-culture

• "Maia Kobabe’s comic memoir: A harrowing tale of how sexism and yaoi pushed a woman into sex denialism"

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20220724231740/https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/96860/maia-kobabes-comic-memoir-a-harrowing-tale-of-how-sexism-and-yaoi-pushed-a-woman

• Screenshots of more Exclusionary/Transphobic anti-fujoshi:

  • https://twitter.com/purity_culture/status/1433501575507496968

• "Various Sources on the Anti-fujoshi discourse originating from TERFs"

  • https://rottenboysclub.dreamwidth.org/3356.html

• "Lolcow: Detransition thread"

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20240109162701/https://lolcow.farm/g/res/230474.html

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Common Topics Anti-trans groups may Discuss or frame in a certain way without being obvious:

• LGBTQ+ people are referred to as predatory, especially with the term 'grooming' or 'groomer'

• Often referring to women as 'females' in regular conversation. 'Adult Human Female' is an anti-trans dogwhistle.

• Fears of (trans) children mutilating their bodies 

• LGBTQ+ mentors are framed as brainwashers and 'groomers' of children

• An overall anti-sex view that frames fictional media as a bad influence & criminal; Express ideas that LGBTQ+ media will somehow turn children gay, etc.

• Any mention of 'Fetish': Anti-trans groups believe Trans identity to be a mental illness and fetish. Their "official" terms are 'autogynephilia' (AGP) and 'autoandrophilia' (AAP). They will claim trans people 'fetishize' the bodies of women and men.

• No Kink at Pride: This is once again a talking point used by trying to make gay men appear to be child groomers. Fear of children being exposed to sexuality is the center point, despite PRIDE riots being pioneered by sexual minorities (and workers) since stonewall.

• Homophobic Straight Women: A term used by cisgender gay men who are against trans-men. They see trans men as infiltrators of their spaces who are trying to "trick" gay men into being in relationships with them.

• TRA (Trans Rights Activists): Negative connotation and not a term used by actual trans activists

 

• Their term for trans men: TiF (Trans Identified Female)

• Their term for trans women: TiM (Trans Identified Male)

• LGB (Drop the T): An alliance of Largely Gay men and Lesbian women who reject and exclude identities outside of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual (although bisexuals are not largely supported by them either)

• Clocking: The idea of being able to tell who is trans and who is not by physical appearance and behavior.

• Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD): not an accepted clinical term "coined in 2016 to describe an alleged epidemic of youth coming out as trans 'out of the blue' due to social contagion and mental illness."

 

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