The most egregious initiatives of Michael Knowles can be easily defeated at court. A lot of people are going to suffer until it happens.

The problem we are currently experiencing is due, partially, to the excesses of trans activism. That doesn't let the Right off the hook; but it does acknowledge that they were provoked. There is blame enough to go around.

What the trans activists did that provoked the Right was to conflate fact (gender dysphoria) with belief (being transgender). The former can be proven; the latter cannot be. Do I believe that "trans women are women"? I do, indeed. But it's not something I can prove; and, therefore, it's not something I can force others to recognize.

This means that the fight for "trans rights" is, in many cases, insupportable. We can easily fight for our rights as victims of gender dysphoria; but we will lose when we fight for our rights as transgender.

This analysis runs smack into the meme that you don't have to have gender dysphoria to be transgender. It doesn't matter. "Being transgender" is not something you can prove. The most you can prove is being a victim of gender dysphoria. Fighting on the basis of "being transgender" is like fighting for abortion rights. It's not something you can win based on fact alone.