I’ll start with a question: how many trans people have you known in your life? I bet you can count them on your hands. And yet, trans activists seem to be in the middle of every culture war debate about sexuality. They are driving the train, and the rest of us are just along for the ride.
Trans activists take the position that what average people call “normal” is simply “binary”–one choice among many that are also equally valid. The right completely and emphatically rejects this argument and uses it opportunistically as a stick with which to beat the entirety of the left. Many impeccably liberal women also reject the argument, but insist that trans people should not be discriminated against by the state. For their pains, they are called TERFs by the activists, and treated on social media as if they were Nazis. The treatment of trans people is thus a perfect wedge issue for the right.
The activists need to understand that they do not represent anything like a majority on the left, and are unlikely to do so for the foreseeable future. They need, and should be grateful for, the political assistance of the people they call TERFs. If they go too far in dividing the left, they are looking at life under Trump or DeSantis.