so how is it reinforcing patriarchy?
Transgenderism inevitably reinforces patriarchy because, as well as depending on the stereotypes/boxes as its raison d’être (how can you “transition” if there’s nothing to transition to or from?), it fundamentally benefits males at the expense of females, which is part of the essence of patriarchy.
If you deny the reality or the significance of biological sex, the people who will be most harmed are those who have been/are disadvantaged by their sex. We see this happening all the time already. Women and girls losing out on sporting opportunities and awards; being assaulted in prisons; giving up places on “top 100 women” lists; being deprived of single sex rape support groups… the list goes on and on.
This isn’t really happening to men/boys, although I know some teenage boys in the US are very uncomfortable about having to share changing rooms with young female people who identify as trans. But obviously there’s no safety issue for those boys as there is for girls in the reverse scenario. Men are harmed mostly insofar as we are all harmed by the creep of woke authoritarianism and the gagging of free speech.
When one sex is more vulnerable than the other, both because of immutable biological reality and because of social, political and economic disadvantage that has built up over generations and only just begun to be addressed, then that sex will suffer from the loss of sex-specific protections and redress for that disadvantage.
The sex that has more power and privilege, and that is relatively invulnerable to the opposite sex, faces no such issues.
Transgenderism takes away from female people to give to male people. Who already have roughly 90% of the pie. Patriarchy is male rule: transgenderism is male people controlling what women can say or do, controlling what boundaries we are allowed to have - even our bodily autonomy, when for example, women prisoners are forced to shower in the presence of male prisoners who identify as trans; or female swimmers are forced to change in the presence of male swimmers who identify as trans; women and girls at the WiSpa are subjected to a sex offender committing exhibitionism and voyeurism in their midst, and “liberal” people defend him.
Women have lost so many women only spaces; lesbians have lost lesbian only spaces, and the right - even within their own so called community - to assert their own sexual orientation. We’ve lost the very words we need to name ourselves as a discrete group with particular needs and rights.
And because it’s all done in the name of “progressiveness” and “minority rights”, it’s been incredibly difficult for women to challenge it, as we all know. The scapegoating and demonising of women along with the push for absolute control; the elevation of what male people want at the expense of what female people need - it couldn’t be more patriarchal.
It has increased the scope of what male people can do and have, by decreasing the scope of what female people can do and have. It’s the perfect woke backlash against feminism. Patriarchy reinventing itself for the progressive age.