Thanks for the interesting response, Spaceman. Regarding your example, it is definitely a fact that the transgender treatment professionals are "castrating boys," and that they obviously avoid using that term to describe what they are doing. I doubt that they are denying that reality, however, so much as claiming that said procedure is "medically necessary, effective and safe." (Full disclosure: I am opposed to "gender affirmative care" as it is currently defined and practiced).

My position on the need for compromise is that our form of government requires it, if any action is to be taken on problems that need to be solved. Compromise is a process of mutual give and take, in which both sides get some of what they want but not all of it. When one side is doing all the giving and yielding, that is not compromise, it is dominance and submission. You rightly argue that one-sided efforts to compromise become a fools' strategy leading to self-subordination. What you describe in your last sentence about "how the hard progressive Left operate; they exploit the reasonableness of their critics," is the effort to take power via hostile manipulation. The leftist activists do appear to take a lot of pleasure in hostile manipulation, although I would assume they would prefer direct power assertion (dictatorship).