Please Do Not Use "Borderline" As an Insult
Your friends with BPD don't want to act that way
I have not followed this particular interpersonal conflict, and this post is not about the details of it. Rather, it is about the content of this tweet, which came up during my weekend doomscrolling:
If you are not knee-deep in the muck of gender, then let me offer you this preview. The movement to push back on, or dispel, beliefs about gender identity is full of people who’ve been harmed. It’s also full of people who arrived in the movement already suffering. Many had been made worse by their experience with these beliefs, and sometimes the medicine accompanying them. I feel for them, and I know that many of them sensed that they’d found real community when they grew strong enough to reject those beliefs. But there’s a lot of infighting, because there’s a lot of damage.
I happen to be someone who arrived in this underground as already harmed and suffering—not because of gender, but because of my own brain. As one family member said to me a couple of years ago: “Everybody thinks you’re so damaged.” Indeed, I have a Ph.D. in self-sabotage.