The article is clearly about political and legislative anti-trans machinations though, not TERFs at dinner parties or whatever. In that context it’s the right that is the issue.

The organized TERF movement and the far-right anti-trans hysteria movements are one and the same.

For example, the Women's Liberation Front (WoLF), which brands itself as a left-wing group, has been working with the far right: https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1634287701896712207...

And your comment might even be relevant if “left-leaning feminists” were a non-fringe political power threatening to take over legislative, executive, and judicial branches of power. We have real problems to deal with, not some imaginary “bad feminism”.

Feminism advocating for women as a sex caste fighting for their rights in a male-dominated world is the only type of feminism that makes any sense. Everything else is, to varying extents, pandering to male wants and desires.