these are not reasonable people who can be debated into changing their beliefs; they are deeply damaged, trauma-borne and delusional, and need therapy to overcome whatever their malfunction is.

transphobia shares a lot of characteristics with several mental illnesses - delusional beliefs; crafting elaborate, persecutive narratives that the trans people are somehow causing unique harm to them; narcissistic claims of privileged position to dictate morals, etc.

ah, right on. code tends to be pretty predictably shaped, yeah.

they're completely worthless at poetry, by contrast.

I think that reading the works of people who communicate ideas effectively would be more useful here, given that llm style is very low-density and corporate.