"Just as civil rights movements need to confront their racists, feminists need to confront their misandrists, and the left needs to get over its fairly bizarre self-racism."

Yep, so true. There's a real tendency within all of these movements to close ranks and do the whole "see no/hear no" routine when "one of their own" is doing something obviously wrong. And anybody who does speak up is a "pick me girl" or a "tool of white supremacy" or "truscum" or whatever.

In fact, it's interesting how viciously these groups attack people within them who hold the "wrong opinions." Spending as much time as I do mired in these kinds of debates, I do see trans people speaking up, but it's all too rare. Largely, I suspect, because of how especially vicious trans people are online when they're on the attack.