I was going to write something in response to that Nick Watte quote, but decided it was not worth the brain power
I was reading an article about intimate partner violence in the LGBTIQ community.
Statistics were given referring to male-identifying people, female-identifying people and trans people.
The article was mainly about having to look beyond heteronormative understandings of domestic abuse as male perpetrator, female victim.
Almost twice as many male-identifying people experienced physical violence as female identifying people - which, looking through my heteronormative lens gave me pause. But on reflection, in this community, male-identifying people and this language means male homosexuals, I think, which means both victims and perpetrators are men?
So the language really just obscured and it seemed to me that male violence was still the problem, but by talking about male or female-identifying people and a general trans category, it was difficult to properly understand.
That may be my cis-het-normative analytical framing, but it seems to me feminism is about understanding relationships of power and if it is not even clear which groups of people are meant, the way power operates is opaque at best.