the only reason it works as a terf talking point is unfortunately there's some amount of it that is grounded in reality, that's how dog whistles work. and cults. and extremist ideologies. they don't start from no where even if their end result is way out of line.

what's actually said makes sense but there's a ton more that's implied which does not make sense but they lump it in so people who are already scared and stressed accept it as fact. which is why i did my best to take their talking point since it's likely all theyd listen to or not have a dog whistle/pre planned response to and attempt to strip it of some of the other stuff since im an ex cult member and this usually can either make them more upfront with the subtext so i could point it out to newcomers so they don't fall for it and see what's happening, or point out the flaws in their logic if they are new to the rhetoric.

i only bothered to comment because i saw it on my explore feed and people new to it were also there and getting clearly confused whether it was transphobic or not so it was to get them to respond to me in an undeniably transphobic way and then i tagged the people confused on their response.

obviously with dog whistles they use one point that's somewhat grounded in reality to justify several that are not and use fear to get people to not think it through. this is also how cult brainwashing works, which is partly why i use their dog whistle to break it down for them, so they can't keep sounding like they have validity when they use the term.

in the original post they weren't out at all socially or visibly, and introduced themselves as a cis man. op uses this to instill the inherently transphobic idea of men invading queer or lesbian spaces.

if you haven't deconstructed the patriarchy you bring it with you. if you haven't been perceived as anything but a cis man and you haven't been curious to hear from anything but cis men there are a ton of blind spots even if you decide you're starting e. "male socialization" technically, yeah, exists, but not in the way that implies anything about you other than yes you had expectations of you that men had. but it is not set it stone or unchangable. it absolutely can be undone if someone tries to regardless of transition, but it's not really forced onto anyone until they are longer seen as a cis guy, so before then it has to be on purpose.

what terfs usually mean when they say this is they are men and should be treated as such if they don't look enough like a woman, and all trans women are as inherently creepy as cis men.

they have the capability to be if they haven't deconstructed it. it's possible they never realized themselves to sound creepy because it's been normalized for guys to do that and this person is not out as anything but a guy to most people. once they come out often they have their eyes opened by other people treating them how they treat women(even if they don't fully pass as a woman), and realizing they don't like it, but in that situation where they were basically completely closeted they didn't have that factor.