Originally a comment by Artymorty on Who actually.

Trans activists learned early on that if you call yourself something enough times, people will start to believe it. “Fake it ’til you make it” has become the central tenet of the movement.

Fake that they’re women enough, people will eventually capitulate.

Fake being a legal clinic long enough, lazy journalists will start treating it like an authoritative source.

Fake academics have spun a citation-laundering ring, endlessly citing one another in a closed loop. “Gender identity” is the Ivies’ yellowcake uranium: a complete fiction, yet deadly enough to justify their attacks.

Even the grand, pompously titled “World Professional Association for Transgender Health” is just a rebranding of a once-puny little outfit formerly called something like the Harry Benjamin Association — a successful rebranding, given that journalists now revere it like it’s the Trans W.H.O.

They’re building a parallel world out of make-believe.

It’s the journalists I’m mad at, though. And really, the editors above them. Trans la-la land exists entirely — entirely — on the media’s approval. Its authority survives only because it’s propped up by those we trust to separate fact from fiction.

The three people on Earth most responsible for the trans mania are David Remnick, Kath Viner, and Dean Baquet — Editor of the New Yorker, Editor-In-Chief of The Guardian, and former Executive Editor of the New York Times, respectively.