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I don't think radical feminism is ever going to be attractive to trans people. It flies directly in the face of the idea that one can become a woman through playing out gender roles, or having a woman's brain, or "feeling" like a woman, or having a fetish for becoming a woman, or whatever other "female essence" people evoke to legitimise this wishful thinking. For women, the goal is to shed gender roles and all other nonsense surrounding their sex. If this happens, male trans people, by virtue of not being female, cannot in any way be considered women.

According to trans ideology and liberal feminism, rejecting gender roles is actually sexist because these things aren't actually bad, and actually we all have a gendersoul attracting us to our role and words don't mean a thing anyways etc. Liberal feminism is the perfect ally for trans people because, having concluded that rejecting and criticising femininity is "misogynistic", it sold feminine women the idea that the shackles of femininity and objectification aren't a problem since anyone can take them on. I feel like trans ideology cannot be attacked on its own, because it feeds off of all the flawed misogynistic ideas present in liberal feminism. Sadly the biggest critics of liberal feminism are either GC who've welcomed rape-culture-loving conservatives in with open arms, or trans-inclusive radical feminists who, despite it being at odds with the entire movement, claim that trans rights are consistent with feminism because "they just are, don't question it you transphobe".