>>41472171 (OP)
it's a lot more nuanced tho
I think one perspective held by a few was that anglo feminists and philosophers typically pushed nonsensical abstractions of sex and gender, such that a woman could simply think herself into being a man
essentially the push for using and building upon ideas of lived experience was a push against that sort of overly intellectualized abstraction, as much as it was a push against bioessentialism
however, there is a lot of room for nuance and alternative views and models between strict reproductive functionalist silliness and 'it's just a choice' silliness
I also don't think the largely unexamined and uncritical 'critical' views parroted on platforms like tumblr and tiktok helped much, and was almost as regressive as returning to views reminiscent of aquinas tbqh