I used to agree with you Mishy. The trouble is, once you see the misogyny within the trans rights movement you can’t unsee it. It’s a feature, not a bug.
It’s politicians in Australia (and in the UK Green Party) comparing GC women to faeces.
It’s a group of lovely ladies threatening to choke TERFs with their “lady dicks”, “Kill a TERF”, encouraging others to “punch a TERF” and posing with knives and baseball bats.
It’s privileged white men on Twitter whose idea of allyship is mansplaining womanhood to women and dismissing their experiences as unimportant. Such men often drop the patronising tone and are markedly more respectful when talking to a man who disagrees with them.
It’s women being described as “people with a cervix”, yet men not being described as “people with a prostate”, because clear health information is important for men, apparently.
It’s a white trans woman in her forties, in less than peak condition, taking a spot in a Women’s National Olympic Team that would have otherwise gone to a woman of colour. And then despite a disappointing performance, winning a “Sportswoman of the Year” award!
It’s the belief that a trans woman seeking support from a rape crisis centre should have the option of attending a men’s group, an “inclusive” women’s group or a trans group, yet a women seeking support should absolutely not have the option of a female-only support group, even though it would run in addition to the other groups.
I could say a lot more, especially about women’s prisons, but I’ve run out of time. There are many, many more examples and if you keep your eyes open, you won’t have to wait long to see one.