The trans-positive left has its own issues with carceral thinking, but the point remains that "gender critical" or "terf" feminisms' core logic is abt identifying the spectre of a so-called wolf among sheep, an enemy that must be rooted out & destroyed - the logic of conservatism

"Gender critical" feminism appeals to the terror of the common person who is already exploited by an elite-dominated patriarchal society. It gives them a scapegoat - the trans woman - to blame for the loss of psychological security in a socioeconomically devastating landscape