Ivr said it before, but lesbian culture is very specific in how it handles gender and its part of what's primed so many TiFs to come out of the woodwork.
Historically speaking Butch women were often considered a kind of "third gender" in that they were often ostracized by other women as well as men. A lot of non dykes considered them "men lite" and the butch/femme culture of older lesbians essentially put butch women in the social position of men (in a culture that didn't have any).
If you read Stone Butch Blues or any other writing by real, old-school butches you'll find all the same trains of thought you see TiFs waxing about nowadays. There's specifically a lot of talk about being almost part-man and part-woman—to have the social expectations and responsibility of a man, but to also have the softer heart and empathy of a woman. Loving a woman the way a man would, but in the way only a woman can.
All of this is to say that butch subculture carved out a niche for a very particular type of woman that has been overtaken by all this trans shit. I think most TiFs would be much happier if they were just old-school butch instead.