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Detransitioning will not make a person a better feminist. It's not a good way to break down patriarchy or gender roles. It doesn't give women or gay people more freedom. Transitioning doesn't reinforce sexism and detranstioning doesn't undermine it.
Detransitioning can help some people live a better life but it's not an effective act of social protest. There's nothing inherently radical about detransitioning.
A trans person doesn't have to detransition or renounce being trans to engage in radical feminism. Trans people are oppressed by patriarchy, not produced by it. It is in our interests to resist it and join with others working to overthrow it.
Transmasculine people don't have to "reconcile with being female" to show solidarity with women. We don't have to "reidentify" as women to fight for liberation from patriarchy. We can apply radical feminist analysis to our own particular circumstances.
We are put in the categories of female/woman against our wills and it makes sense to look at the social and political implications of that. We are impacted by misogyny, sexism, homophobia, etc in ways that are distinct and particular to being transmasculine.
Being pressured to see ourselves as women can get in the way of seeing how we are actually oppressed by patriarchy. Our lives are shaped by being seen as "deviant women" but in specific ways that typically don't come into play with others put into the social category of "woman".
Any transmasculine person can of course claim womanhood, in one degree or another, if they want to. But we should be able to decide how we relate to that category. Our feminist politics should not be judged by how female-identified we are. Actions matter more than identity.
A detrans woman is not automatically more feminist than a transmasculine person. "Reconciling with being female" is not the same as consciousness raising. Pushing transmasculine people to "re-identify" can inhibit rather than advance our political consciousness.
Transmasculine people are perfectly capable of recognizing and understanding our own oppression and relationship to patriarchy and womanhood without help from outsiders. To think otherwise is to engage in both transphobia and misogyny.
Renouncing my transmasculinity didn't liberate me, it trapped me in a cage of transphobic theory. Figuring out I could claim both womanhood and transmasculinity, that I could be a radical feminist and trans and make up my own theories, that set me free.
I think a lot of the problem comes from the politicizing of transition in the first place, people begin to make grander claims about their own identity when political ideals are infused into those choices (I know I did).
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