So, okay. You know that post about how some posts that appear to be just be saying innocent feminist stuff end up having a totally different context if they're made by TERFs?
This is that. Just A Simple Artificer (@CraftyCatDad) is the latest Twitter handle of Andrew Blake aka thanfiction, a grifter so prolific that he has an entire Fanlore page about him.
His past behaviors include but are not limited to starting two different cults, sexually and emotionally abusing multiple people (some of which he himself has admitted), committing documented fraud and identify theft, and in general lying about literally anything you can imagine someone lying about: having a terminal heart condition, being sold into sex slavery as a child, fighting on "both sides of the Troubles," having an evil twin sister who was really the grifter, and, notably, everything about the nature and extent of his past crimes and abusive behavior.
I am extremely abridging the entire saga: this is a history that spans over twenty fucking years. There is not a single fandom he has entered that he hasn't tried to grift.
Why am I bringing this up on a post that's not about fandom?
Because what he's saying is very rich coming from a guy who used his position as a costumer to deliberately trigger fat and trans people's dysphoria as a form of negging. It's rich coming from a guy who "affectionately" triggered his ex-girlfriend's body image issues with a "game" involving him riding her naked body and staying on by holding onto her loose skin. And it's rich coming from a guy who repeatedly shows disdain for both trans and queer people, even though he himself is an AFAB man (he identifies as a straight cisgender man and does not want to be called a trans man or queer unless it's useful for him to get sympathy).
I have zero problem with the sentiment being expressed. But knowing the context of his past behavior – including his pattern of couching his abusive behaviors as "empowering" – it stops being a thoughtful meditation on the nature of gender and more him admitting that he knows exactly how to trigger people in order to exploit them, as well as a ploy to gather followers he knows are going to be vulnerable to that exact tactic.