Friends suggesting transphobia and misogyny both rooted in policing gender roles

[Pyjamatimenow]

Friend of mine has posted on her social media ( a very long detailed post) that basically trans rights are women’s rights and that what she sees as transphobia is akin to people who ‘punish’ women who don’t fit into gender stereotypes, don’t get married, don’t look ‘feminine’, don’t have children…Says she’s a feminist and defends the rights of trans women to live safely etc …whatever that means. Cis women mentioned several times. I don’t normally comment on these kinds of things on FB but struggling with this particular post! If I were to say something what would you say?

Sticking it to women seems to be the dominant goal. That and gaining their attention.

For this one, yes, undoubably. It's not a coincidence how close many of his "arguments" are to classic MRA tropes.

Excellent work, Rhino
I remember in the olden days when it was just a gold lame purse.

It's the rage that gets me.

Why the fuck is he, and men like him so bloody angry with women. It has to be all connected to the incel environment.

I love this.

It's like the consumer price index.

This year in the what makes me a woman basket, we have glasses, psychological associations, and because I said so.

Last year it was a constellation of data points, my mum's assertion, and because I said so.

The year before, it was my new, enormous boobs, sundresses, and because I said so.

As a PP has said, I'm detecting a theme.

It is hilarious isn't it. Such backwards construction. Start from what they want the end to be and work backwards to justify it.

"I understand all sorts of things that are currently socially attached to sex don't have to be. Also, because I am progressive I don't think we should be classifying people by sex at all because that is reducing people to their biology or limiting their sexuality. Logically, I should therefore be agitating to drop the idea of men and women altogther and just have "people" and "things people do/feel/enjoy".

However, I still like the idea of women, so much in fact that I want to be one. So obviously we still have have to have the idea of men and women, it just can't be linked to sex or biology any more. But yes obviously we still need separate toilets, that's really important otherwise what is the point of being a woman and not a man anyway?

So, rather than following my own thought process to the logical conclusion of getting rid of the division between men and women altogether all and putting all the non-biological social construct stuff currently linked to sex back on the pile for everyone to play with, I'm going to decide that "women" and "men" still exist but it's actually all the psychological/social construct stuff that makes a person a "man" or a "woman".

Yeah, that feels good to me, that's what I'm going to go with."

An incel-to-trans pipeline has been noted previously. I believe that this is who people refer to when they use the term 'transcel'.