This sounds like a dog whistle origin story.
Edit: never mind I'm retarded because that was your point. How they think stuff like saying "natal female" is a dog whistle when it's obviously straight-up exclusionary and already discouraged language, is just wow.
Unlike trannies, some of us try to be very precise by using words to mean what they are supposed to mean. This has made a lot of people very angry, and been widely regarded as a bad move.
You’re assuming they
do think that. The boomer wine aunt who wrote the original tweet might actually believe it, because she is a useful idiot, but most AGP troons don’t. They want to make it taboo for people to say stuff like “natal females” not because they genuinely believe it’s a TERF dogwhistle, but because they want to remove any boundaries between themselves and real women,
including linguistic ones.
They want to make women unable to describe themselves without being pounced on as bigots. They want handmaidens to have trouble even thinking about themselves as a truly separate category, and to correct their own heretical thoughts. That means removing any terms women might use to distinguish themselves from AGPs.
Usually quoting George Orwell is cringe, but his Newspeak essay goes into this tactic very well.
"But the special function of certain Newspeak words, of which oldthink was one, was not so much to express meanings as to destroy them. These words, necessarily few in number, had had their meanings extended until they contained within themselves whole batteries of words which, as they were sufficiently covered by a single comprehensive term, could now be scrapped and forgotten. The greatest difficulty facing the compilers of the Newspeak Dictionary was not to invent new words, but, having invented them, to make sure what they meant: to make sure, that is to say, what ranges of words they cancelled by their existence."
Go
look at the whole essay and see how neatly it all matches up when you slot in words like "woman" and "mother" and "biological sex."
The paragraph I quoted above, for example, lays out the technique currently being used with the word "woman." "Woman" has had its meaning extended to include males, and now TRAs are trying to push the eradication of words that people have come up with to distinguish the different categories covered by this new definition (female, natal woman, biological female, etc).
(Of course, this only applies to their enemies: AGPs themselves are allowed to distinguish transwomen and cis women. It's just actual women who aren't allowed to distinguish on their own terms.)
