I never understood why troons love Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson. They were crossdressers, not Troons. And isn't cross-dressing 'offensive' to troons?
a huge part of trans ideology is how ahistorical it all is, but also how homophobic it all is by co-opting a lot of gay history.
it started with these two being appropriated as trannies, even though they were indeed just gay drag queens, but this reclamation and reshaping of history, especially GAY history, grew legs and the troon gang really ran with it. they've even said something along the lines of Joan of Arc being trans, which is also just misogynistic as fuck.
I remember seeing this trend a while back and laughing about it, but the more I saw it happening, it started worrying me a bit. but what's really getting to me now is I'm actually seeing this erasure happening as a fem gay man to other fem gay characters in media; Fish Eye from Sailor Moon is canonically a male who looks and acts like a woman but is still strictly male and the trans squad has co-opted the character to have "always been a trans woman". when the character was introduced originally in Japan, it was very much blatantly shown and accepted that he was a male, but when he was introduced to homophobic America, they basically couldn't have a fairy looking feminine guy running around, so the American directors treated him as a woman. it's simply homophobic, similar to the treatment Sailor Uranus and Neptune received in the American adaptation by going from lovers to being "cousins".
and that's a more classic example. I came across a more recent one as I was reading a BL WebToon comic. basically, BL usually involves a character pairing that follows a trope of an overtly masculine man (seme) and overtly feminine man (uke) falling in love. and I'm reading the comments of confused zoomers reading this webcomic and they literally cannot tell that the uke is a man and keep asking if he's trans or asking what his "pronouns" are, even though they're both explicitly men and the author states this.
a lot of detractors of trans ideology turn to the Saudi Arabian perspective of LGBT, where they would rather have a trans woman in a seemingly "heterosexual" relationship than a gay man in a homosexual one, but the more I'm reading into this shit, the more it seems like that's trans ideology anywhere you go. this shit is confusing our younger generation into thinking that, if you're a young boy and show feminine traits, you must be a woman, or vice versa with young girls acting masculine and being men. I used to laugh at this implication that trans ideology was erasing gays and lesbians but, now that I'm starting see it more and more, I'm taking it a bit more seriously.