The pity of it all is:

"in some contexts it's not a problem to treat TW *as if* they are women, and in others it's a *huge* problem, so let's talk about specifics"

is all that a lot of people been saying.

TWAW was always absolutist, and always false.

In this comment, I'm not trying to speak for anyone, or to say anything more that 'this is what a lot of people have been saying'. I realise that some people say much more than this, and will disagree with this attempt at encapsulating a view. I'm reading all the critical...

... comments. The point is to show how extreme and absolutist TWAW was, and how reasonable discussion of policy might be possible, once that is junked. I expect reasonable disagreement. I'm opposed to unreasonable absolutism. And maybe that's dying away.
If so, good.