Silicon Valley with "mission driven" companies can be pretty cult-like (ask folks who worked at Facebook, Apple, and Linden Lab, for example.) And plenty of cis-people are in the so-called "rationalist cults," and many of them are not welcoming places for trans people.
The alienation that a lot of trans femmes face in the Valley is vulnerability the cults use, the same way the Moonies preyed on undergrads at college campuses during the 1980s.
Heck, even the Zizian's and related groups are using lot of the same frippery as the Scientologists, with slightly different names: instead of an "auditor" going after your "engrams," the victim's now trying to "gain root" on their mind to drive out the "demons."
Silicon Valley with "mission driven" companies can be pretty cult-like (ask folks who worked at Facebook, Apple, and Linden Lab, for example.) And plenty of cis-people are in the so-called "rationalist cults," and many of them are not welcoming places for trans people.
The alienation that a lot of trans femmes face in the Valley is vulnerability the cults use, the same way the Moonies preyed on undergrads at college campuses during the 1980s.
Heck, even the Zizian's and related groups are using lot of the same frippery as the Scientologists, with slightly different names: instead of an "auditor" going after your "engrams," the victim's now trying to "gain root" on their mind to drive out the "demons."