That being said, I guess I'm more just thinking in terms of who's willing to actually be publicly gender critical. In the US, no one on the left would chance it. They'd be completely fucked. Only the most batshit, extreme radfems in the US bother with it, whereas it's somewhat more mainstream in the UK.
As far as concrete reforms go, it's hard to attribute specific reforms to specific groups, I think. So it's possible terfs over there didn't supply the real muscle in gaining progress, I don't know either way.
But they have been making a lot of progress. In particular, Stonewall, their big gay (read: tranny) org over there has a frankly impressive grift where they publish a gay acceptance ranking for various corporations and organizations, including government organizations, and then they sell training courses to the corps for big money to increase their ranking. It's faggy extortion. Well, recently, big orgs in the UK have been dropping out of the Stonewall training programs like flies, including the BBC (this has huge implications).
It turns out that some of the advice Stonewall has been giving, like regarding bathrooms and such, is actually technically incompatible with the law. Stonewall's training has been telling corporations that it's illegal to have sex segregated bathrooms and stuff like that, which (I'm told) is factually untrue.
Edit: In the US, when we've been making inroads, it's thanks to federalism and big players like Florida and Texas telling troons to fuck off. Which is nice, but it sucks that it's a left/right thing instead of just common sense.
As its a lolcow forum, I think that the way I'd see troonery backfiring in the UK is largely due to the troons themselves. They are the biggest trolls of their own movement, through what they actually advocate for. TRAs seemed to have stopped campaigning for anything even
remotely sensible and ironically set themselves up for failure, through their victories. What I mean by that is that when they pushed for and got the law to allow kids, teenagers, and other mentally ill people to transition, men in rape shelters, forced gender propaganda in the workplace, thats where the backlash really started.
I think the largest coalition against them is more the parents, teachers, etc. The average person, the boomer, the silent majority actually waking up, whatever you want to call them. These people largely do not care about women's rights, albeit they may care about feminism marginally and standard liberal tropes. They will never give a fuck about changing the nuclear family, too many big breasted women in vidja, riot grrrl, or what have you, but they do care about their own kids, and maintaining a society where the ability to avoid violence is
reasonable enough. You threaten their kids, and thats where they have gotten pissed off, and where much of the backlash in the UK is coming from now. Now, we're starting to see this in the US as well, especially in states like Virginia, Florida, or much of the South. There are detransitioners here, parents complaining, cases of troons raping girls in bathrooms, exhibitionists in spas, women being raped in prison, etc.
Troons have dug in on horrible culture issues, for God knows why, and they will wind up destroying much of their own movement as a result, imo.
I was sympathetic at first, with a bit of a live and let live, the seem ok people and aren't harming anyone attitude. I knew one FTM who was absolutely cool. He (I'm respecting pronouns because I'm a cuck) was chill, didn't police language, and was open and humorous about transition. He's disappeared off the radar and I really hope he hasn't joined the 41%.
Past the normal views on this forum, used to be sympathetic, and felt the same way. Not going to parrot what people have said before and "peak trans movements" but I've had too many of them to count.
I'm beyond caring much about the community, but eye rolling things such as "you don't need to have dysphoria to be trans or need to medically transition" (which opened the door to AGPs to be "trans") really ended things for me. There's no gatekeeping in said movement, and in fact theres active people against any sort of gate keeping. Trans no longer means
anything any longer. The umbrella is frankly too big, and too inclusive of every sort of paraphilia. It used to signify some mentally ill person born in the wrong body (who, whether you feel sympathy for them or not, and many of these people can be gaslit, okay that can be a legitimate enough condition), but its come to be synonymous instead with the same sex pests as furries and confused teenaged girls and autistic boys mixed in. That is the majority of "trans" people today.
I think that in a decades time, sure, there will be more "acceptance" of gender queer folk, "former trans kids"
who really just had a phase where they cut their hair short as a woman, etc. I think that people who have genuine gender dysphoria (and not 'rapid onset dysphoria' as a teenager via social contagion) are the ironic exception within their own movement. The trans movement is also full of AGPS without dysphoria or the want to even transition, and teenagers who are just confused, and that's irreversible from this point on.
Not someone who will hate anyone by default based upon the social group that they belong to, but around trans people, I do have my guard up because of how common it is for them to be highly politicized idiots, coomers, dangerhairs, and sex pests. That likely won't change for a long while. They are the mid 2010s furry menace, but with state backing- frankly.
