I find it interesting to try to think why getting behind the TRA cause appeals to some women. I think if you personally as a woman have enough social and economic privilege that you don’t ever feel confined by sex stereotypes yourself in a way that limits what you want to do in your own life, then the TRA grift maybe could have a good chance of gaining purchase on your interest or your conscience?
You haven’t had to personally fight against stereotypes restricting yourself so you don’t apply any politically radical approaches or class analysis to them, or feel drawn to think outside of mainstream party political thinking because you’d then have the discomfort of remembering that loads of other women not much different from you, currently don’t have your freedoms.
More comfortable to not look into your understanding of injustice too deeply, to just enjoy and assert your own privilege, and (if you consider yourself a bit lefty and caring) to hope the women who do currently suffer limitations due to stereotypes will shut up and quit pointing out your own relative privilege…
Thus you might champion (while ‘other’ ing) the ‘poor things’ because to you they represent brightly rainbow coloured illusorily ‘progressive’ social conscience cachet that reflects well on you to presenrt on your radar. Think of the very famous men and women in the entertainment and arts worlds who talk like this for example. Your support shows you are aware of current issues, the ‘poor things’ do not challenge or appear to asssail your own privilege at all. So you’re happy to line up against the joyless TERFS complaining about men all the time. There needs to be a source of oppression in this story and you don’t perceive male oppression because you’re sheltered from that in the main ways that are important to you.
You’re maybe happy to lie and pretend for validation of the ‘poor things’ and the likes that you then get, because perhaps your sympathies may have been really engaged by the Americanised, hyperbolic talk of barriers to ‘healthcare’ and being at risk due to being excluded from ‘bathrooms’ etc. It’s a safe little ‘cause’.to support. Highly abstracted it seems from your own daily life and tfreedoms that you assume aren’t fragile because you take them for granted. You don’t have to balance it against anything else.