I agree! I remember Serrano making a great critique of academic degendering in Whipping Girl. The differing cultural interpretations of our performances don't change that we're pushing against gender norms and some of us have dysphoria/change our bodies.

I think unilaterally calling transfeminized(?) populations "trans" is more oversimplifying than anything else. If those people are self-identifying as "trans" and it isn't a decree from random Western academics, then I don't see what the fuss is about rly