Weird line of argument from Serano here I think.
Like I appreciate that trans narratives are often exploited by scholars but that doesn’t mean they offer no particular use at all to exploring the theory of gender.
I also simply do not see how ‘picking apart’ the gender identity of a cis person would be interpreted as offensive or equivalent to misgendering on any level. No doubt some people would get angry at the idea that mens’ hobbies and relationships are affected by gendered socialisation but it seems a fairly tame point on the whole.
This isnt rendering their gender identities 'suspect’ it is merely trying to explain them, unless you think any theory of gender that doesn’t hold some form of naturalism would be somehow invalidating.
Maybe I just don’t understand Serano’s concept of 'degendering’ that well because I feel like 'erasure’ or 'exploitation’ would have been more useful for this chapter.