There is a viral Facebook post going around, which has been picked up by LGBTQetc. media outlets like Out Magazine, and major mainstream US outlets like the Today Show and CNN. The original post is by a mother who threw a 'gender reveal' party for her 17 year old, who is female but now identifies as her son and also as nonbinary. I know these kinds of stories aren't that unusual at the moment.
But a particular part of the mother's post stood out to me as a clear admission of how antifeminist and regressive gender identity ideology is:
"We get so excited, picking out clothes and nursery decor based on the sex of our babies. We throw parties, and pick out names. We assign attributes (like strength or beauty) based on what our child has growing between their legs. And MOST of the time, that works out perfectly fine."
Most of the time that's perfectly fine???!!

Several years ago when I first started questioning this stuff, it was this article by Rebecca Riley Cooper which articulated the issue in a way that made me stop assuming that my discomfort with this ideology must be due to prejudice or lack of understanding on my part. That article made it clear to me that, yes, it really is a world view based on the assumption that sexist stereotypes are correct and unproblematic most of the time / for most of us, and that 'trans' and 'nonbinary' people are the exception to that rule.
What strikes me about this is that in 2016, what the Riley-Cooper article did for me was to explicitly join the dots in a way that made it undeniable that an ideology that holds that a small, special number of people don't fit with the stereotypes associated with their sex, must also hold that for most of us, those same stereotypes are right and proper. Breaking with those stereotypes becomes a matter of individual rejection of sex and 'validation' of nonbinary identity, rather than an act of progress toward liberation for women as a sex class (or progress away from toxic masculinity for men as a sex class).
It's one thing to have the blatant backward sexism of genderism articulated in a feminist critique like Riley-Cooper's. But to have it so clearly stated by someone actively celebrating and promoting the ideology, thinking they're being progressive... It's something else. There are no dots to be joined; they are now stating it plainly: we assign roles and attributes to people from infancy depending on their sex, and most of the time (i.e. for all those boring, unspecial, 'cis' people) that's perfectly fine.
Surely there must be people peaking as they read this?
Full story here: www.today.com/parents/ohio-mom-holds-gender-reveal-party-transgender-son-grey-t186711