So something happened as I was looking for a book...

My therapist wanted me to read Andrea Long Chu's Females for a while and on my way to buy it online something totally wacky happened. I stumbled upon a reddit post about this critical review of the book by a trans woman. The review seems pretty typical, praising Chu for being interesting while at the same time critical of her perspectives and cast them as misogynist, absurd, projecting, nonsense, a "harmful" narrative to trans people, and generally un-transfeminist... essentially a pretty shallow reading of it and closely toeing the "party line" of public-facing transgender narrative at the time it was written, back in 2019.

This would all be quite unremarkable, except in the interim, the book critic has since detransitioned, claims he was "immersed in transgender ideology" which encouraged him to transition because of his "autogynephilia" and has even converted to Catholicism. Andrea Long Chu, meanwhile, is still Andrea Long Chu-ing.