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I think transvestigation is strange in that its not transphobic in its core but its outward manifestation is completely transphobic. The core of transvestigation seems to come from insecure women who know they could never look like celebrities and dont consider the wealth that buys the surgeries, chefs and personal trainers that are needed to look like that and instead conclude that it must be because celebrities are trans. After that they have to create an entire mythology to make 'every famous person is trans' make sense as a political project. The racism against black women that had chuds convinced Michelle Obama was probably very influential in their worldbuilding.
A bit how certain strains of 19th century anti-semitism were described as 'socialism of fools.'
the core of transvestigation is the basic fact that sex and gender are socially constructed. they encounter this fact and it doesn't fit with their worldview so they triple down on transphobia.