I suppose their argument is that women are socialized into becoming women and therefore trans women or trans men are “socialized” as the gender they’re born as and not their actual gender. I’m going to call bullshit on that, though, because the way that translates into their full ideology is questionable at best.

Deconstructing the gender binary should be the ultimate goal here, because it’s rooted in patriarchy and fucked up in general. Trans liberationism does this by radically challenging the idea that gender is something inherent to anything at all. And the tip-off that these TERFs are full of absolute bullshit is that they almost always support transmeds and trans assimilationists, but never trans liberationists.

This is because they are transphobes, and are not actually motivated by feminist ideology. If they wanted to actually criticize any segment of “trans culture” from a feminist perspective they would probably just come away with the exact same take the majority of trans people who aren’t rich and don’t have the ability to afford tons of surgeries and shit have: Trans assimilationists suck ass.

The fact that their depictions of “evil trans women” are always these stereotypically “ugly”, masculine people, as if it is somehow inherently part of being evil to be “ugly”, without any introspection into how those definitions of ugliness are defined, is suspect. It is, of course, a rhetorical trick to make their transphobia clearer, as they are aware most trans women that do look like that aren’t evil perverts, but they feel fine slandering trans women like that anyways. But it still reveals their main belief: “Trans people should just be invisible and assimilate like they should have long ago.” See JK Rowling or whoever saying that the “normal trans women” are ok but not “weird trans women”, whatever that means in a cis transphobe’s deranged mind.