@Sasha #209629
I find it extremely difficult to believe that MRAs/incels/'former' neoNazis, who by definition hate and despise women, would actually consider going through all the grueling steps of becoming one.
Now, I have not looked into the degree to whic it happens, but it does make sense if, unlike TERFs, we accept transgender as a real phenomenon, and also that people - even men! - are capable of changing and indeed redemption:
Young, deeply repressed transwomen try to push away their gender identity issues through overcompensation and sour-graping, immersing themselves in aggressive performative heteronormativity and misogyny. However, some of them eventually manage to escape these toxic coping mechanisms and accept the truth.
(Compare Haggard’s Law)
Now, how it makes sense in the TERF world… really, by the power, and the power alone, of the fundamental assumptions of persecution complex ideologies: “The Other is simply Eeevul!1! and just lives to ruin everything We want because it is Eeevul!1! and it has no motive than being Eeeevul!1!” and “the omnipotent conspiracy has brainwashed everyone - that is, everyone but me and my echo chamber!”
PS:
Also compartmentalisation allowing them to ignoring the contradiction between fearmongering about castration and the horrors of sex reassignment surgery and fearmongering about girldick and men casually declaring themselves trans to win at sports and to engage in sexual predation.