This is especially palpable in the phenomenon of gender roles. “Oversimplified conceptions of our behavior as female or male,” gender roles reduce our gender and anatomical performance into the categories of “boy” or “girl” (Basow 3). Patriarchy then builds systemic inequality on this simplistic binary foundation, linking the “masculine” to spheres of power and the “feminine” to spheres of powerlessness. Gender roles are one of many patriarchal infrastructures that thrive on a concrete definition of gender and/or sex, and so modern feminism has found power in dismantling both constructions. Interestingly, trans-exclusionary feminists might claim to support the demolition of such social constructions. Their theories and actions, however, tell a different story, a much more problematic story. I do not wish to generalize trans-exclusive feminists under any circumstances; like all other people, everyone has their own personal beliefs and lived experiences. What this essay considers is the very edifice of trans-exclusive feminism, the flaws inherent in being exclusivist towards the trans* community, and how this exclusivity is counterproductive to the tenets of trans-exclusive feminism.