Really, these apply to liberal excess in general.
Warning Signs of a Cult - Gender Identity Indoctrination
Emphasize special doctrine
- "trans women ARE women" & "trans men ARE men"
- "people can be born in the wrong body"
- "biological sex isn't real"
- "gender identity is innate"
- "same-sex orientation is transphobic"
- "biological sex isn't binary"
- "sex is assigned at birth & can be incorrectly assigned"
- "kids know their gender identity from an early age"
Oppose critical thinking & questioning the doctrine
- "TWAW/TWAM because they say they are, no debate"
- "people's lives are not up for debate"
- "how people live their lives is none of your business"
- "cis people can't understand our experiences"
- Creating & disseminating thought-stopping propaganda
Attack & shame non-believers
- Using epithets, slurs, and derisive terms for non-bellevers ("TERF", "transphobe", "bigot")
- Making outrageous claims about non-believers ("you don't want trans people to exist" & "you want trans people dead")
- Claiming superior knowledge over non-believers ("your understanding of biological sex is out-of-date" & "you can't understand because you're cis")
- Comparing non-believers to hated groups of people ("you're just like the anti-gay the bigots of the past" & "you're just like Trump supporters" & "the Nazis dehumanized trans people, too")
- Using analogies to familiar forms of bigotry ("Transphobia is just like racism/homophobia/sexism")
Diminish parents' influence over cult member
- Encouraging teens to socially transitioning without parents' approval
- Convincing teens to talk to trans adults without parents' knowledge
- Facilitating private trans spaces that parents don't know about
Warn of dire consequences for not joining
- Sharing inflated suicide statistics
- "better a trans boy than a dead girl"
Isolate cult members from non-believers with special experiences
- Love-bombing early transitioners
- Convincing gender-confused teens only trans people can understand them
- Encouraging friendships & other relationships only with other trans people
- Emphasizing that the transitioner is now part of a "family"
- Sharing language and terminology unique to "trans folx"
- Using social media to exhibit trans rituals only insiders can take part in
Force cult members to doubt & resist objective facts, as well as their own experiences, perceptions, & knowledge
- Questioning someone's identity is bad
- "a man would never pretend to be a woman if he wasn't really trans"
- "people are whoever they say they are"
- "there's no such thing as a male or female body"
- Claiming trans-identified males can be lesbians
Instill fear in cult members
- Sharing inflated murder statistics
- "Trans Day of Remembrance"
- Repeating claims about how much & how often trans people are harmed
- Convincing transitioners that outsiders hate them
Separate cult members from their families
- Convincing gender-confused teens that family members are abusive
- Medically transitioning teens without parental consent
- Encouraging transitioners to create new "families" with trans people
Penalize cult members for leaving
- Harassing & bullying detransitioners
- Denying detransitioners exist
- Doubting the experiences of detransitioners
