This is based on something I posted on another thread which has since been deleted as it was about a particular individual. But the point is a universal one so I hope that as a concept, directed at an ideology rather than any one individual, it can stand.
It is my sincere belief that biologically male people claiming to be women/girls is in itself an act of gross misogyny. People who refer to them as “women” of any kind are colluding with that act of gross misogyny. Whether out of internalised misogyny if they’re female themselves or plain old male-supremacist-based misogyny if they’re male.
It’s misogynistic bigotry. Misogynistic bigots, whether the old fashioned overt sort, or the new fangled covert sort, are not people I see as being worthy of respect. Pandering to them by pretending some biologically male people really are women and calling them “she” is as bad as supporting outright MRAs, and ultimately on a continuum with supporting groups who actively suppress women’s and girls rights, like the Taliban.
It’s all founded on the patriarchal principle of seeing female people as fundamentally lesser than male people, as service humans here to facilitate the lives of the “real” humans, the male ones.
Genderism cannot be seen apart from the context of thousands of years of patriarchy and oppression, control and abuse of the female sex by the male sex. This context is absolutely fundamental and crucial, as is the fact that male oppression, control and abuse of female people is very much ongoing in all parts of the world, not just a historical occurrence.
Members of the oppressor class appropriating the identity and hard-fought-for rights and protections, such as they are, of the oppressed class is in itself an act of oppression. Of control and abuse.
It is impossible for it to be benign as long as there is a power imbalance between male people and female people - and the reality of the biological differences between us means there will always be a power imbalance there, even if we did somehow one day achieve an impossibly utopian state where all the socio-economic power imbalances had been levelled. (And such a day shows no sign of arriving any time soon.)
No woman with an ounce of self respect, or an ounce of care for the rights and safety of women and girls, should be colluding with this massively offensive and damaging shite. It is the same old patriarchy in supposedly modern vestments. It needs to be challenged every bit as much as all the more obvious manifestations of patriarchy. Genderism is essentially inimical to women’s rights, dignity and humanity.
Anyone care to flesh this out some more?