Originally a comment by Bjarte Foshaug on Just stop.
The Trans Propaganda Playbook:
1) Appeals to emotion (“Trans people deserve love” “Trans Day of Remembrance”)
2) Obfuscation (“Social constructs!” “Intersex” “The Genderbread Person”)
3) Appeals to misunderstood, misrepresented, or dodgy science
(“Biologists say sex is a spectrum!” “Girl’s brain in a boy’s body!” “Clownfish!” “Did we mention intersex?”)
4) Bullying
To which I would add:
5) Tribalism (“It’s the right ‘leftist’/‘progressive’/‘feminist’ thing to do”)
6) False dichotomies (“If you’re not with us, you’re with the MAGA crowd”)
7) Word-magic/bad puns (“If we call TIMs by the same name as biological females, they magically become the same kind of people, and must therefore be given access to all the same spaces”)
8) Gaslighting/DARVO (“Isn’t it awful how that poor trans woman with her lady-cock was made to feel unwelcome in the women’s changing room?”)
9) Thought-terminating cliches (“Trans women are women!”, “Trans men are men!”, “Non-binary identities are valid!”, “Trans rights are human rights!”, “the right side of history”)
10) Sound volume/endless repetition (TWAW! TWAW! TWAW! TWAW! TWAW! TWAW! TWAW! TWAW! TWAW! TWAW! TWAW! TWAW! TWAW!!!!!!)
11) Appropriation/forced teaming (“LGBTQ…”, claiming monopoly on “non-white feminism”, “Queers for Palestine”)
12) Appeals to what is best left unspecified (the definition of “woman” or “gender”, what is meant by “trans rights”, “trans healthcare” etc.)
13) The gender of the gaps (“The biological sex model doesn’t meet this impossible standard, therefore the gender identity model gets to claim victory for free without meeting any standard at all”)
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