Okay, so I just watched the movie "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" for the first time. Highly recommend, by the way, it's a great film. But anyway, it's about a teenage girl who gets caught with another girl and sent to gay conversion camp for nearly a year.

And throughout the entire film, I couldn't even believe how much of the same language these people at the camp were using that TRA people use today. I watched a similar film, "Boy Erased," not too long ago, but this was much more pronounced.

When first getting to the camp, the kids have to make this thing called an "iceberg" that's supposed to explain why they have same-sex attraction. And over and over again when filling these things out, the leaders tell them to write down anything that gave them "gender confusion" in their childhoods. So basically, these "icebergs" are covered in gender stereotypes. The boys spent too much time doing housework with their moms, the girls watched sports with their dads or played sports in school. The only sport they're allowed to participate in at the camp is hiking since it's the "only gender neutral sport." There's an emphasis on the kids' hairstyles and making sure they're appropriately masculine and feminine.

And then in one scene, the characters gang up on the main character and tell her that she's not making the camp a "safe space." And when the main character pushes back on this, she's told "not to invalidate others' feelings by expressing disagreement."

Anyway, I didn't go into this movie expecting to see anything about the TRA movement in it at all, but I was just blown away by all the similarities. Gender ideology is really good old evangelical homophobia dressed up to look woke. They even use a lot of the same language, and the mentality is definitely the same. And much like a lot of TRAs, I really got the sense that the people running the camp weren't bad people, they were just trying to help in the only way they knew how. And most of them were victims themselves.