i don't think it's a good look if, when faced with a trans woman who disagrees with them, the first urge of any self described 'transfeminists' is to start transvestigating her and accusing her of lying, and i think it's indicative of the radical feminism seeping into their ideology and their insitence on basing their ideology around identity politics instead of anything of substance. I've mentioned this in the tags of other posts, but it's telling that these are the people who use their own identity as a cudgel to shut down other people pointing out their bigotry, who often claim that you should support All Transfems no matter what, and then immediately jettison all of that when it's not convenient for them, but in doing so have to make it seem like the people they're mocking and disregarding must not be Actual trans women because. again. they've already said you should support All transfems no matter what and base their entire ideology on identity politics. if you base it, instead, on actual principles you can recognise and acknowledge that marginalized groups are not a monolith and that some of them will be bigoted against their own interests (the way i can with other transphobic trans people*. like the people i'm discussing here) without any contradiction, but they've backed themselves into a corner where their entire ideological framework falls apart if they acknowledge reality, so instead they transvestigate and harass any trans women with dissenting opinions.
*i'm deliberately using neutral language here because there are a lot of self described 'tme' people who uphold the same viewpoints and assist in this sort of thing, and a lot of them just seem to be willing to go along with whoever's loudest, but often they're clearly doing it such that it maps onto gender essentialist identity politics as well - ie you see transandrophobic trans men saying that acknowledging transandrophobia is a denial of being men and no Real man would be saying it; Real Men inherently hold patriarchical privilige, ergo trans men must as well; it is the responsibility of Real Men to protect Fragile Women- so they just act as if cis gender dynamics apply to trans people on the basis of personal idenity alone - as if that's the root of patriarchy - regardless of broader material conditions and social recognition. They're acting in support of the same gender essentialist ideological framework and they frequently pull the same transvestigation card not "just" in the context of insinuating trans men who recognise their own oppression aren't men but also in immediately dropping the idea they should Always listen to and protect trans women in favor of transvestigating and harassing them the moment it's not conducive to upholding their worldview to recognise them as trans women in the first place.
*edit: actually drafted this a while ago to come back to but i just saw a post where someone tried to get a number of 'transandrobro' blogs deleted by suggesting mass reporting in 'retaliation' for transfem blogs getting deleted despite multiple of those 'transandrobro' blogs belonging to.... transfems. so here's this post lmao
