It was the principle of the thing.
I’ve been doing this work for more than a decade now, so if you’re indecisive, I’m going to say this: there are no doubt trans women who are jerks, misogynists, and who carry around a fuckton of male privilege. But they are NOT all trans women, and they are not jerks BECAUSE they are trans.
Cis women can be jerks, too, but we’d all rather not have people’s opinions and policies decided based on their behavior.
Anyway. I don’t think of what I do as fighting transphobia. What I think I do is practice an intersectional, trans inclusive feminism. & That is all.
There are many, many ways a woman arrives at “woman”. Trans is just one of many paths.