@NekoShiro
You've got it the wrong way round. And that might well be because, at face value, it can look like busting gender boxes.
But that's because when you see a transwoman, you're actually seeing a man dressed in a feminine way, and your first instinct is to see gender nonconformity. But only because you know he's a man.
The damaging and ideological part comes right at the very end, when he says dressing in a feminine way, and claiming he thinks and feels like a woman is not because he's a gender nonconforming man it's because he is a woman. Because that's the way women, and only women, think. It's reinforcing the boxes, not dismantling them.
This is why it is regressive and damaging, largely to women. It's not progressive.
We're going backwards.
It's a shame a lot of younger women these days seem to take so much for granted. It's really only a short time ago when women were not given access to higher education for instance, or it was simply not considered necessary, because they would end up getting married and having babies, so what's the point. Rape within marriage was completely legal in the early 1990s. A landlord could quite legitimately refuse to serve a woman, purely on the basis that she was female, up until the early 1980s.
I realise that to some young women, this seems such a long time ago. But many of the men who heartily approved of these laws still work in environments where they are made.
It's bad enough seeing men clamouring to roll back women's rights. But at least it's familiar sexism and misogyny.
But it's incredibly frustrating seeing women doing it, too, out of a sense of ignorance.