One of the things many transactivists bring up when people argue against the trans idea from a feminist perspective is "who's it hurting, really? Why does it hurt anyone to say that abortion/menstruation could be a man's issue, or that sperm banking is a women's issue?"
Well, I'm in the US. In a few months, when we have a new president, it's very likely abortion will be coming under fire from our lawmakers and there won't be much way for feminists to fight what's coming. Because the language of "proper" feminism has now led to being unable to describe abortion and contraception as a women's rights issue, the right to choose whether to continue or terminate a pregnancy will be much harder to fight for.
Feminism has turned into such a circular firing squad, with everyone hastening to scold themselves over being too white, too "cis," too able-bodied, or whatnot, that it has become difficult to talk about issues that affect wide swaths of the female population.
It has real effects: Instead of discussing the possibility of storing abortion pills and such for the coming years, feminists of my acquaintance on Facebook are talking about stockpiling estradiol for MTFs.
Instead of worrying about the fact that women's programs and shelters are likely to be gutted, there's hand-wringing about the handful of trans murders this year, unsubstantiated mass trans suicide rumors, and dire predictions that 2017 will be much bloodier. This, in spite of the fact that so far, a very small fraction of those murders was even motivated by the victim's trans status (most have been domestic violence, same as suffered by us ordinary "cis" women).
At a time when a serial sexual assaulter is going into the White House (replacing a black man who was elected in a landslide), women are being told that the failure of a white woman to win an election over a white man is proof of racism, and are told to put their energy into efforts to ensure that Muslim refugees (almost exclusively boys and men) are protected, that prisoners (a vast majority of whom are boys and men) are protected, and so on.
Feminism has become the "mommy movement" responsible for putting plasters on the boo-boos of hurting men, and the chickens have come home to roost -- and now, the women's movement has become so fractured I am not even sure it knows how to reunite and present women's issues with a front of solidarity and far-reaching vision.
White women without a college degree in the US are the only demographic in a developed country whose lifespan has declined in recent years, and no one's even looking into why it's happening. Maternal deaths are up across all racial demographics, especially in the southern states. The most common cause of death for pregnant women is murder in some states. West coast cities have experienced major surges of drink-drugging happening in plain sight at generally-reputable bars and clubs.
These aren't issues feminism is allowed to center around, now, and the trans issue was the start of it. Just focusing on female human beings is an affront to all of the male human beings who have an unorthodox gender presentation, or darker skin, or are impoverished, or disabled, or have any other traits that might make them have problems.
The idea of these men having their own movement that doesn't enlist women as the primary footsoldiers? Preposterous. Only good mommy feminism can help. When feminism puts itself first, it's being a bad mommy, a selfish mommy, and the men will throw a tantrum until it stops.
How long will this continue before women see what's happening?