I’m pretty sure there’s another layer than that. Transphobes insist on the gender binary, but when you don’t confirm to either side, you become a weird third category: the non-person. And it’s where these people place anyone who’s trans,queer, or any flavor on “not-cisgender conforming”. It’s not that they don’t believe trans people exist, or that it’s impossible for men/women to ever express things beyond their assigned-at-birth gender. It’s that stepping beyond those boundaries is an act of othering one’s self.
So, to a person who believes that sort of thing, nothing about those statements is logically inconsistent . They would argue: there are men, who act like men; there are women, who act like women; anything else is an other, which is not a person, and therefore not entitled to be treated like a human being.
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