TERFs have a lot in common with troons, unironically.
Yeah, they’re angry about men dressing up as women and stealing their grift, but at the end of the day they share the same “politics trumps everything” mindset and victimization fetish.
Troons think they’re oh so oppressed because of who they are, and need to fight TERFs and the patriarchy.
TERFs think they’re oh so oppressed because of who they are, and men are all conspiring to kill and enslave them.
Watching them freak out over things like the Depp trial and SCOTUS is as satisfying as it’s well deserved.
Both groups have warped ideas about what manhood and womanhood mean and are flailing around acting like weirdos because of that. Most interestingly they share a perspective that biology itself is an oppressor. You can see it in the hostility terfs bear towards heterosexuality and childbearing, taken sometimes to florid extremes by the likes of Shulamith Firestone and her transhumanist ramblings. And when terfs try to explain troonism, they betray the fact that they basically agree with troons on the "problem" (nature itself, maybe God) but just differ as to the "solution." For instance:
Problem: 12 year old girls feel uncomfortable, scared, and demeaned by the male attention directed at their developing bodies.
Troon solution: "You are a true and honest man, no wonder you hate people noticing your chest fat! Bind your breasts and then cut them off, bro!"
Radfem solution: "You are a true and honest feminist lesbian womon, no wonder you hate being objectified by ape-like MALES. Wear ugly butch dyke clothes and avoid nasty rapey MALES in all circumstances, they are not to be trusted and will ruin your life!"
But the actual problem is the moral lawlessness of our society and the fact that kids are booted out to be raised by their peers and are not properly guarded or guided by their parents.
Problem: 19 year old Cyndi is "not like the other girls," likes computer games and playing guitar and wearing ugly shirts.
Troon solution: You're actually Cayden and need to troon out to be like the other bros.
Radfem solution: You are a smart and superior woman, probably a "baby dyke" who just needs to be properly greeted and initiated by your local lesbian feminist coven.
But the actual problem is, your interests and fashion tastes are trivial and changeable and have nothing to do with either your sex or your politics or your sexuality. Cyndi needs to just grow up and stop caring so much what others think.
So radfemmery and troonery are simply competing forms of emotional reactivity and identity instability. They are stuck in adolescent mode. Both are manifestations of societal borderline personality disorder.