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TERFs are made, not born. The fully peaked radfem does not merely “grow out of” recognizing harm -- quite the opposite. Once the harms of genderism are spotted, they're impossible to unsee. Most Terven start as allies whose brain survived the propaganda tutorial and reached the actual game. TERF levels are achieved through skill and experience. The proto-TERF begins in the harmless ally phase: “I educated myself.” Then the unease sets in when men like Lia Thomas show up in women's sports, drag queens twerk for toddlers, and the pronoun Stasi shut down any reasonable questions or concerns with threats of death and rape. Then comes the readings of the forgotten texts, the combing of the forebidden forums and the following of the foresaken ones and being perplexed at how they've been so misrepresented and deliberately misunderstood. Then they see the bad evidence for all of it, and the sham network of NGOs, AGPs, greed, and motivated reasoning fuelling it all. Then they see the same destructive pattern everywhere: rape shelters admitting rapists, women's prisons issuing condoms to protect against the bepenised, lesbians banned from legally assembling as lesbians, girls skipping the water fountain and holding it in to avoid the boys in their restrooms, and the obvious safeguarding concerns everyone keeps pretending not to notice. At last, she climbs down from Mount Stupid, survives the Valley of Despair, and ascends the Slope of Enlightenment, emerging as one of the Terven: the final bosses of the gender Dunning-Kruger curve. Most of us were once very good little allies. We did the slogans. We were fully onboard to support gender nonconformity, deconstruct sexism, and burn down the patriarchy. Then we noticed the raw deal for women, children, lebians and gay men that was being imposed through indoctrination and aggressive activism, the reification and reinforcement of gender stereotypes, the rampant misogyny and homphobia, the AGP-driven male supremacism, the Lysenkoism and iatrogenic harm and the amoral banality underlying it all. And, we noticed that other noticers were being harrassed, threatened, silenced, sidelined and demonized for noticing. But, we kept on noticing anyway. When critical thinking about genderism starts to peak, there's no come down. So yes, some of the younger naifs may still be wandering the foothills, mistaking media saturation amd institutional propaganda for public agreement. But give them time. Allow their pattern recognition to bloom with experience. Give them one incoherent “no one knows what a woman is, but you must affirm that men are women when they demand it or be punished” argument too many. Every strawman argument, use of circular reasoning and false equivalence is a push towards the peak. As long as trans activists continue to defend their bullshit with gross misogyny, homophobia, increasing violence and aggression, bad epistemology, poor science and non-existent logic, there is always hope. Today’s ally is tomorrow’s Terven, provided she has courage, principles, and a functioning brain.