I sometimes worry that we’re overreacting to an epic, tech-assisted pure trolling effort, because in the real world hardly anyone truly believes this nonsense.
To understand what is happening, in terms of social engineering, you have to understand the nature of astroturfing.
Let us imagine that there exists a small group of extremely powerful people (mostly but not all male) who enjoy the benefits of obscene wealth and the omnipotence it confers.
How do they control the opposition and stifle dissent? How do they consolidate their assets and retain their positions of omnipotence?
Of course the oldest trick in the book is that to control the opposition you become the opposition. Nowadays we understand this as astroturfing.
So, for example, if this powerful group cherishes a world view in which women and men must conform to gender stereotypes, it is quite logical for such a group to bankroll feminist groups, women’s emancipation groups and groups for men who are gay or who are considered not to conform to gender stereotypes.
The strategy can be to infiltrate existing groups using shills / sleeper agents / agent provocateurs, to compromise groups by “ helping” them financially so that they are financially dependent (a common strategy with charities) or to create entirely new shell groups (very easy in the internet age).
Once groups have been established / infiltrated / compromised the usual trick is to take things to extremes and then to ridicule them from afar.
This is what has happened with the TRA movement, a movement that is hurting women and also hurting intersex people and transsexuals.
One important element to appreciate is that, before the advent of the internet, some people with autistic spectrum disorders often faired poorly in terms of careers and interpersonal relationships.
Now powerful groups, everything from criminal networks through to governments are involved in an unusual kind of arms race in terms of identifying genetic and neurological features that are involved in the creation of people known as savants.
Some neuro-atypical people are highly desirable as human assets.
People like Daniel Tammet are extreme interest both to criminal networks and to governments
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tammet
Various actors are, naturally, very interested in, just for example, genetic tweaking and neurological research in order to create savant human assets
It is no surprise to me that young people on the autistic spectrum are being recruited into personality cults via youtube and facebook influencers
It is no surprise to me that many young people on the spectrum are identifying as transgender
It is no surprise to me that, when I have attempted to raise concerns about terrifying abuses against vulnerable people that when I get to meet some senior official in the public sector, they turn out to be trans
This is not, in my opinion, a theory of men against women. It is a conspiracy of powerful people using systems of mental health service provision (charitable and NHS), social networking websites and astroturfing of minority advocacy groups in order to get oppressed people fighting each other while they snipe from the sides and harvest savants and experiment on young people who are vulnerable and / or neurological-atypical.