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Eventually I decided that transphobic feminism was more in line with patriarchal values than a threat to it. That some lesbian feminists were choosing to work with right-wing groups because they really do have some kind of common ground with each other.
And vice versa with the Christian Right turning towards cultural feminists. They're both freaked out by postmodernism, gender deconstruction, sexual ambiguity, and body modification. They both want stable binary gender categories linked to biological sex.
They both idealize a kind of natural order that they see trans people threatening. There's often some nostalgia for the past. A lot of lesbian feminists want to go back to when they had a thriving movement and/or to some mythical Amazon matriarchy.
Certain tendencies in lesbian and cultural feminism have long had the potential to support rather than challenge patriarchal gender. People have been criticizing them for that reason for decades now. But this seems like a whole new level.
I want to understand how and why this happened, not only to resist transphobia but to understand how a political movement that set out to fight for liberation can end up reinforcing oppression instead. It's something I'll probably be thinking about for some time to come.
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