Ky Schevers

...the queer/trans communities they left behind. They're reacting to the culture of queer and trans people who are their peers. They probably know a lot more about trans people than most older gender crits, they've had more real life contact with trans people, they might have...

...even identified as trans themselves at one point. They can make arguments drawing from their past experiences and knowledge of the queer/trans communities they're trying to recruit from. Their arguments can be far more compelling and dangerous because of their familiarity...

...with what they're trying to combat and criticize. This is the next generation of transphobic feminists. They're not on their way to dying out. They're young, they're committed, they know how to organize and make effective propaganda. They're activists to watch out for.

What are their other politics? Because it strikes me that there's going to end up being something of a clash there sooner or later.

The younger rad fems tend to hold more leftist views, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-imperialist, etc. They're way more likely to have read actual radical feminist books but they tend to lean heavier into the cultural feminist strains of radical feminism.

So, a tendency to stigmatise trans women based more on books than life? In practical terms... Do they support eg toilet laws? Attacks on health care? Are they exclusionist/eliminationists? Or is their disapproval more theoretical than policy oriented?

No, many have had direct contact with trans women. Some were in abusive relationships with trans women or otherwise hurt by individual trans women and were then radicalized to think that all trans women are abusive. Others pick up transmisogyny after consuming lots of propaganda.

They do tend to support laws restricting trans women's access to bathrooms, etc. Tend to be really into protecting "female-only" spaces, think Michfest. Some are more exclusionist, some more eliminationist, there are degrees of extremism and some get more extreme over time.