We should attack transphobia head-on simply because it is a disgusting ideology, but if that's not enough for you, it's a system of control that stems from a patriarchal assumption about what a woman "should" be whose natural end is rigid gender roles upheld by state violence. Which seems bad!

I love how hatred always contradicts itself. If they succeed in repressing the Transgender people, the Intersex people are also in line. When these hateful people get to the intersex people, I foresee "mandatory sex change to your AGAB" being put on the table, which makes those Intersex people Trans

I’d argue these are not separate concerns! I’m disgusted by the patriarchal control of who is allowed to be a woman and how they are allowed to express their womanhood! IOW I don’t see any transphobia that is not an expression of a Big Terrible Ideology, it’s just one of its faces!

Yes, it is rooted in a belief in rigid gender hierarchy and that women's role is to be submissive and subservient to men. LGBTQ people are a threat to patriarchal order.

Patriarchy isn't self-sustaining anymore and it's making conservatives panic.

Assumptions about what men should be too. I've seen "transvestigations" of cis men, it plays out differently of course but they are also implied to "actually" be women. Transphobia is a system of control that stems from patriarchal assumptions about what a woman or man is, not to mention binarist.

Rigid roles for men and women, with serious punishments for people seen as effeminate men. It seems the patriarchy is hardest on the people seen as men who don't toe the line and act like their predefined stereotype.

And in fact that was the reasoning SCOTUS used in Bostock v. Clayton County, 2020, that discrimination against trans people was discrimination based on gender expression. I'm certainly not saying SCOTUS is our friend, but they occasionally get something right.

"Trans misogyny is just misogyny with extra steps."

It is enough for me.

No to mention that nearly every loudly transphobic person seems like such a cartoonish example of taking unresolved and unexamined personal issues out on the world that they would seem absurdly oversimplistic caricatures if rendered in fiction