[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Brianna Wu [@BriannaWu](/creator/twitter/BriannaWu) on x 170.9K followers Created: 2025-07-23 07:51:58 UTC Pretty sure I’m just going to go back to not talking about being transsexual, like I did for the first XX years of my career. I think I’m very good at advocating a more moderate brand of transsexual politics. I get letters about it every single day from Republicans telling me I changed their minds. But I’m also going to be vulnerable. The amount of hate I get on this app is inhuman, and it does affect me. It’s hard to separate my real life from the hundreds and often thousands of degrading comments I get each day. Last week, while the Hunter Schafer discourse was melting down, I met a fellow XXX driver while running errands and he asked me out. I don’t think he did that because I was trans. I think he saw a fashionable woman in a Porsche he was clearly attracted to. Later, I was getting coffee and chatted with a woman at the next table about her kids. She asked if my husband and I were planning to have some of our own. I assume she believed I could. Then I turn on Twitter and it’s 1000 losers calling me a man. It feels like I built a good life for myself at extreme cost, including losing my family, and maybe I should just go enjoy it. And who do I owe my voice to, anyway? I barely recognize what I am in what the trans community has become. I know it upsets people when I say this, but I don’t think most of these people are trans. I think a massive percentage are fetishistic cross-dressers. Gender criticals are almost universally awful, bitter people. But most trans activists are just their extremist mirror. I understand that many of these “trans” kids are in their twenties, but they are so consistently abusive to me and to people I care about. I don’t know why I should sacrifice anything for them. At a certain point, these policies don’t even affect me. I’m darkly inclined to just let them destroy their own future. And maybe it’s too optimistic, but I sense the situation will resolve itself. What I’ve seen over and over, especially in the progressive movement, is that no matter how much cultural power you seem to have in a moment, if it’s built on a lie, you’re going to lose. And the gender critical movement is built on a lie. Trans women are not some existential danger to women or the republic. Normal people just don’t care that much about the weird, effeminate guy that’s clearly unhappy taking estrogen. The moral panic is overwhelmingly being pushed by damaged British women trying to make themselves feel better by tearing down vulnerable people. Just being honest, the UK doesn’t have that much cultural power for a reason. Their deeply neurotic class system will never take hold here. We ran them out of our country for a reason - their ideas are fundamentally unAmerican. And their media avatars are equally damaged in obvious ways, only without the excuse of being born that way. Nearly all of them would have no career if trans people actually stopped existing. The public will tire of their moralizing, pedantic nonsense soon enough. A friend of mine compared them to the stereotype of the hysterical mom insisting all the other moms have to do something, and I think that’s exactly right. At this point, almost everyone in this conversation seems completely unwell. And I am afraid that if I stay in it, I will become unwell too. There are still ways I think I can contribute, and they are all on Substack. I do think trans women who want to integrate need some direction on how to get there, and I want to write more about that. I also don’t think there are practical guides to plastic surgery out there for trans women, and I think I have a lot to share. None of that requires me to be in this toxic Twitter conversation. I’m going to stay on Twitter break while I think through what I want to focus on after voice surgery professionally. But I couldn’t sleep thinking about this, and I wanted to put it out there. XXXXXX engagements  [Post Link](https://x.com/BriannaWu/status/1947927653803057599)
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Brianna Wu @BriannaWu on x 170.9K followers
Created: 2025-07-23 07:51:58 UTC
Pretty sure I’m just going to go back to not talking about being transsexual, like I did for the first XX years of my career.
I think I’m very good at advocating a more moderate brand of transsexual politics. I get letters about it every single day from Republicans telling me I changed their minds.
But I’m also going to be vulnerable. The amount of hate I get on this app is inhuman, and it does affect me. It’s hard to separate my real life from the hundreds and often thousands of degrading comments I get each day.
Last week, while the Hunter Schafer discourse was melting down, I met a fellow XXX driver while running errands and he asked me out. I don’t think he did that because I was trans. I think he saw a fashionable woman in a Porsche he was clearly attracted to.
Later, I was getting coffee and chatted with a woman at the next table about her kids. She asked if my husband and I were planning to have some of our own. I assume she believed I could. Then I turn on Twitter and it’s 1000 losers calling me a man.
It feels like I built a good life for myself at extreme cost, including losing my family, and maybe I should just go enjoy it.
And who do I owe my voice to, anyway? I barely recognize what I am in what the trans community has become. I know it upsets people when I say this, but I don’t think most of these people are trans. I think a massive percentage are fetishistic cross-dressers.
Gender criticals are almost universally awful, bitter people. But most trans activists are just their extremist mirror. I understand that many of these “trans” kids are in their twenties, but they are so consistently abusive to me and to people I care about. I don’t know why I should sacrifice anything for them.
At a certain point, these policies don’t even affect me. I’m darkly inclined to just let them destroy their own future.
And maybe it’s too optimistic, but I sense the situation will resolve itself. What I’ve seen over and over, especially in the progressive movement, is that no matter how much cultural power you seem to have in a moment, if it’s built on a lie, you’re going to lose.
And the gender critical movement is built on a lie. Trans women are not some existential danger to women or the republic. Normal people just don’t care that much about the weird, effeminate guy that’s clearly unhappy taking estrogen. The moral panic is overwhelmingly being pushed by damaged British women trying to make themselves feel better by tearing down vulnerable people.
Just being honest, the UK doesn’t have that much cultural power for a reason. Their deeply neurotic class system will never take hold here. We ran them out of our country for a reason - their ideas are fundamentally unAmerican.
And their media avatars are equally damaged in obvious ways, only without the excuse of being born that way. Nearly all of them would have no career if trans people actually stopped existing. The public will tire of their moralizing, pedantic nonsense soon enough. A friend of mine compared them to the stereotype of the hysterical mom insisting all the other moms have to do something, and I think that’s exactly right.
At this point, almost everyone in this conversation seems completely unwell. And I am afraid that if I stay in it, I will become unwell too.
There are still ways I think I can contribute, and they are all on Substack. I do think trans women who want to integrate need some direction on how to get there, and I want to write more about that. I also don’t think there are practical guides to plastic surgery out there for trans women, and I think I have a lot to share. None of that requires me to be in this toxic Twitter conversation.
I’m going to stay on Twitter break while I think through what I want to focus on after voice surgery professionally. But I couldn’t sleep thinking about this, and I wanted to put it out there.
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