A woman choosing to be a man is seen, socially, as aspirational. The woman who lives as a man to fight is a trope, because it presents the opportunity at masculinity as a positive one. There is a type of woman in society who is not only given the option to be a man, but is socially demanded and insisted to be a man, yet who refuses to live as one, and reasserts her own womanhood against an opportunity at 'upwards mobility' - that is, transgender women. The existence of such a class of women is contradictory to the basis of patriarchy as a whole; that is, that manhood and living as a man are aspirational goals, that manhood is better than womanhood.
Our society obviously does not look kindly on those who defy their gender assignment, but it does not look equally unkindly on all who do so. Transgender men assert their masculinity and refuse to be cast as women -- this is, while frowned upon, at least explicable to the social system of patriarchy; of course you would want to be a man. It is a challenge to patriarchy on the individual level, one which can be sated on the individual level, folded into existing aspirations towards the achievement of manhood. To assert femininity, to refuse manhood, is on the other hand inexplicable to patriarchy. While the former can be processed by patriarchy, digested as the individual malfunction of drones, the latter is understandable to the system only as the action of an external threat -- which, of course, it is.
Damn that’s stupid as fuck and completely fails to understand how trans masculinity materially exists in patriarchal society. You’re wrong and hard to talk to at parties.
