A lot of “gender critical feminists” have been commenting on my Twitter recently. If you don’t know what a GC feminist is, they basically have major beef with trans women. They think we are men and upholding everything that’s bad with patriarchy and oppressive gender norms. Not to sound too grandiose, but GC feminists are the natural “enemy” of trans women.

In a nutshell, GC feminists do not like trans women and trans women do not like GC feminists.

Except for the Turncoats. There are a few infamous ones, such as Miranda Yardley. But every once in awhile you will see them pop up, such as on my Twitter feed recently, where one trans woman replied to a GC feminist saying, “Not all of us are batshit insane and the others make us look bad.”

She was referring to me and my article on girldick, where I argued that women can have penises and there’s adequate reason to think of them as being “girly”. And of all people you’d think a trans woman would be sympathetic to such a line of thinking.

But no. This trans woman had decided that it is the GC feminists she wants to align herself with, not fellow trans women. Why? GC feminists are notorious for thinking trans women are horrible monsters who deserve no place at the table of womanhood.

But that must be qualified: the ones that pass as cis women and have had genital confirmation surgery (or really want it) are the “good ones”. The ones who say they are really just males are the good ones.

And so it’s tempting for some trans women to want to be seen by these “radical feminists” as one of the good ones.

“I’m not like one of thus ugly trannies who is a SJW snowflake. I’m not crazy. I know I am male. I hate that I am male. That’s why I have such strong dysphoria. There are only two genders and I don’t believe in all that non-binary snowflake BS. I’m a transsexual and gender is bullshit. I just hate my body and have a medical condition. But I’m not delusional. Not like those crazy Trans Activists.”

That’s the Trans Turncoat in a nutshell.

But there is a cost. There are dangers lurking here for the Trans Turncoat.

The Trans Turncoat will never truly be accepted by the GC feminists, because, after all, they see her as a man. Just a man they can use a tool. That’s all she is: a tool to be discarded when she no longer follows the ideology down its logical rabbithole, which, of course, denies the very validity of her experience.

The Trans Turncoat is initially lured in because the GC feminists might be so kind as to use her preferred name, or maybe even use her preferred pronouns. And so the Trans Turncoat gets a false sense of security. But this is all merely deferential. Like I said before, in no way will the GC feminists ever accept her as a “true woman” because that would involve acknowledging a definition of womanhood that goes beyond an arbitrarily defined sense of biology.

The Trans Turncoat is merely a “woman-on-the-surface” but hidden beneath lies her true male essence, her hidden potential-to-be-a-rapist that GC feminists believe lies in all males, and in all trans woman. This is foundational.

They might conveniently forget to remind the Trans Turncoat of this fact on a regular basis, but eventually the Truth will come out — she will say the wrong thing, show the meekest sign of aggression, and suddenly, they will turn on the Turncoat.

And precisely because the Trans Turncoat will have already burned her bridges with the broader trans community — the very community she deemed as “crazy SJWs” — she will be left isolated, betrayed, hurt, depressed, and confused.

Why did they turn on her? Wasn’t she one of the good ones? She passes! She had all the right surgeries! She doesn’t look or sound like a man! She is not a threat to any woman! She wouldn’t ever rape anyone! She is hurt by the patriarchy just the same as any GC feminist! Why won’t they accept her?

Because they never accepted her in the first place. They just pretended to in order to score political hitpoints against Trans Activists.

And so the Trans Turncoat does some soul searching. Perhaps she will just find a new group of radical feminists to get close to. Or perhaps she will find her way back into the trans community.

But let this cautionary tale be just that: cautionary.