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And your inflammatory vocab choices suggest that you're not interested in calm discussion over issues where people's individual rights do, indeed, sometimes come into conflict.
Other than weirdo, can you specify? I don't think saying feminists and trans people are on the same team is a very controversial statement, at least for non-TERFs.
There you go again. You know very well that this is a derogatory term that is used to shut down debate. And you must also know there are a handful of situations (females in sports, children's medicine) where legitimate rights come into conflict. You have your views and values about these situations, I'm sure, but it's silly (I will refrain from any worse judgements) to pretend that debate on these subjects is morally illegitimate.
Personally I find this whole subject incredibly boring so that's all I have to say here.
I've followed "gender critical feminists" for a while, and in the early 2010s they did claim "TERF". It's only when it became better known to the outgroup and that they, accurately, overly focused on trans women to explain how evil they were, that they tried to rebrand and used "TERF is a slur".