I'm currently in an exchange with someone about whether transphobia that comes from "the left" is really a "right wing" position. That is, some people think of themselves as left-leaning, and they start to get sucked into transphobia— so how to label their transphobia as "left" or "right"? I can make a descriptive comment, like: "You (leftist) are asserting the same thing that right-wing people assert," but that leads to the response that "Well, if cis people from both sides of the aisle hold this opinion about trans people, then the opinion must be objectively true and not specific to any political side or agenda." Or I can make a normative comment: "You (leftist) are asserting a position that is in fact right-wing and therefore inconsistent with your other beliefs, so you should abandon that opinion," but this leads to the response that "Anything I believe is left-wing by definition, simply because I stand on the left side of the aisle." (i.e., "I self-id as a leftist.") In Richard Dawkins's interview with Helen Joyce—published a few months ago to his Poetry of Reality series on YouTube, as I mentioned in my article a couple days ago—Joyce talks about this briefly. She says, hey, J.K. Rowling thinks of herself as left-leaning, and Woman's Place UK too, lots of the "sex realist" folk came through the left. But—this is my perspective—I automatically divide positions related to trans people into "transphobic" and "not," and (regarding transphobia) only secondarily into "left" and "right." Insofar as most trans people (including me) lean left on most issues, that may explain why we tend to label transphobia as right-leaning. I certainly think of transphobia as essentially right-wing and in the service of fascism. But I'm not sure whether my assumption is descriptive or normative, nor if it's true or false. There are so many people on "the left" who hold transphobic beliefs too, which complicates it.