Helen Joyce is wonderful. Fiercely intelligent and takes no prisoners. Some of her writing around these issues is here, for anyone who's not read it, and would like to.
Thank you for the links - will watch them this evening.
Ben and other trans boys were the lowest caste in their trans community. The highest caste were the substantially older trans women who constantly told them to check their privilege, to be quiet, and to listen when trans women spoke.
That's interesting. The transman I know talks a lot about that transition equalling the assumption of male privilege, and that every transman needs to be mindful of and responsible about that. I just sit there and think - actually, the study I read a few years ago (and my own child's NHS senior clinical psych) says transboys are at the toxic intersection of genuine transphobia and misogyny, vulnerable to abuse from all sides, and far more vulnerable to rape and sexual assault than transwomen, and even non-transitioned women and girls. Because predatory males don't see them as men, and misogynists see them as threatening gender norms and are therefore triggered. And yet adherence to gender ideology means, of course, that middle aged males get to tell these young females to shut up, sit at their feet, and listen to them hold forth, because feminism! Privilege! Oppression!
Yes indeed, these females retain the right to remain silent post their 'transition'. What a brave new world.