Read enough thanks...
.... one benefit is I have learned what TERF means.
There is a difference between intersex and trans; yep, got that. There are - I read - people who apparently identify as F but maintain functioning male genitalia which I can see making F only spaces uncomfortable for cis women if they tap up.
My experience is v limited. GF was getting ready to go out and decided that since I looked so bored she'd put mascara on me. She was amused by that, and her friend decided to help and they made me up quite thoroughly. The only bit I hated was the eyeliner stuff inside the eyelids. They asked if I'd go out like that... in the end they got me to go out ins a long tshirt with fishnets.
No way I'd have passed - I had a typical 70s moustache.
The abuse I got was astonishing - oddly enough mostly from men - but in those days it was gay-bashing as they all thought I was "queer".
I didn't dress like that to perpetuate a gender stereotype, and indeed drank pints as normal. I found - and indeed, still find - it hard to understand why a man would want to dress as a woman. It seems vaguely wrong to me, but I don't see it as repressive - but then that's privilege talking.
Someone who wants to take hormones or have surgery to alter their body I find quite hard - and I understand that while it's mostly M->F there are some who want to go F-> M.
Is there the same angst about female-male trans or is it seen as escaping the struggle....? Doesn't sound any easy thing either way.
It does feel a bit like looking for another hook to hang an argument on but in a week when I discover that all PIV sex is rape what do I know.