I've been a trans ally from the beginning. Even as a preteen back in the early part of the millennium I held the (at the time) uncommon belief that TWAW (though that mantra had not been popularized at the time). I was outraged at the occasional story of an elementary teacher being fired for transitioning. I saw "transphobia" as a simple extension of sexist gender roles.

But, frankly, I never really thought too deeply on it and so I believed it but wasn't ideological about it. I viewed trans rights as a logical extension of the fight against sexism and homophobia and figured that the best way to protect trans people was to protect the rights of everyone, so as long as I was never put in a position where I really had to defend trans rights beyond "men should be allowed to wear dresses" and "adults can do to their bodies whatever they please" I never really had any reason to consider myself as anything other than a trans ally.

My peaking was kind of a gradual thing, it kind of came to a head with the Stonewall movie where the TRAs managed to successfully control the narrative to the point that suddenly everyone was claiming that Stonewall was mostly black transwomen, but I was uneasy about the trans bathroom stuff. It was like non-black people and saying the n-word, even if I think that words shouldn't be restricted by race, I also think that non-black people fighting for the right to say the n-word is creepy as fuck and as a non-black person I'm not going to tell black people that they should be cool with me saying it as long as I do so in a friendly way, especially since (as Chris Rock can attest) there are plenty of people who will latch onto any way they can get away with saying it.