Ky Schevers

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.

And they do tend to want to restrict access to healthcare, definitely pediatric transition. There are moderates who are alright with "true transsexuals" transitioning but think most other trans people are following a trend. Many see transition as inherently harmful.

They're generally concerned with laws dealing with trans issues but for some this is more cultural warfare if that makes sense. They're doing what they can to keep their subculture going and recruit as many young people into it as possible.

I wish it would occur to them to mind their own business, but I guess they think it is their business.