It's diabolically brilliant in its simplicity.
And I'm not talking about the twitter drones who vomit up the talking points as easily as they say orange man bad. Those people are little more than bobble heads that manage speech somehow.
No, I'm talking about the thought leaders.
As long as the person is doing what they want and is given accolades and public opinion is in their favor, they can sing the 'woman's' favor and call people critical of them misogynist and buzzword, buzzword, buzzword.
The minute that 'woman' fucks up or steps outside the plantation, BAM! They're a man again, and it's all the fault of the patriarchy.
It's basically win-win. They can play the girl-power card when they're up and patriarchy poker when their down.
I don't disagree. The left is a cult, and like all cults, it's comprised of vulnerable people with identity issues, centred around a few very charismatic individuals who are usually psychopaths.
I don't necessarily think feminists specifically fall into that category. Feminism is an emotionally-driven movement: the politicization of women's resentment and entitlement, and even the pseudointellectuals whose work forms the theoretical basis for feminism are not necessarily intelligent so much as they are good at convincing themselves of their own bullshit.
But for the real ideologues behind the left, the trans movement represents the final revolution: the revolution of the personal. It's about giving themselves the ability to supercede biology and to control people's identities on an individual basis, to disrupt not only the bonds of family, but also an individual's ability to formulate a coherent sense of their own identity and to replace those things with the state.
Yes, I agree with you: there are people behind that who know exactly what they're doing and why.
What's ironic is that marxists, in particular the purest of marxist followers, think of themselves as anti-statist, but their solution to the state is to create a totalitarian superstate that will somehow eventually wither away once it's done reshaping human beings into some sort of share and share alike egalitarians.
Sadly though, marxism in practice is basically glorified feudalism with the nobility replaced by the Party.