I don’t think TRAs are really the main problem for women. They are the shock troops for a bigger agenda, which is privileged men seeing an opportunity to roll back the progress women have made.
I suppose any system which is long-lived, systemic and powerful has a kind of sentience (and someone posted a really brilliant piece on FWR last year around that idea - but I’ve lost the link).
So the patriarchy is using transactivism as the thin edge of the wedge to pry away those political structures which benefit women.
I know that sounds apocalyptic, but in a world where 123 million women are missing, where FGM exists, where trafficking of women and children is increasing, where women are killed every day by intimate partners and family, it’s hard not to see the patriarchy fighting back.
I’m a bit unsettled by some feminists distancing themselves from what was really, at worst, rude behaviour, but female socialisation is hard to resist and they have careers and reputations to protect.
The fact that intruding on a meeting has been reported with a level of horror which might be commensurate with an act of dangerous aggression, reveals much of the deep-seated dislike that many, many men, have for women.
The outrage created by women prepared to be uncivil in pursuit of justice, would be funny if it wasn’t about complete disdain.
I’m quite sure that similar behaviour happens every day with male lobbyists jockeying for advantage. In fact I’m sure that lobbyists do much worse than enter meetings uninvited - but the millions of dollars handed to politicians by big tobacco or big oil or health funds, garners less outrage than two, angry women.