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elizabeth says: "its [sic] trans activism which reinforces gender stereotypes."

this is a despicable blame-the-victim inversion of an authentically radical analysis, an embrace of the idpol activist's wagging fingers. it's always amazing to me when people whose vocabulary indicate that they should know better repeat the authoritarian lies of the protectors and gatekeepers of the status quo. "trans activism" doesn't reinforce anything -- the industrial hetero/cis-normative patriarchal civilization we are forced to inhabit that creates, maintains, enforces, and reinforces gender stereotypes. but that monster is just too big to fight effectively with your puny wagging fingers, so you and the rest of your cadre of heresy-hunters find it easier and much more smugly satisfying to police the so-called micro-aggressions of people who are working on wresting away tiny slices of personal autonomy and agency inside a system of interlocking and overlapping institutions that collaborate to wreak havoc on anyone whose personality and preferred outward presentation takes them -- voluntarily and therefore vulnerably -- outside the rigid expectations of hierarchical social powers.