That's generally how this goes. The people screeching the loudest are either virtue signaling to look like the great savior or they're people who "identify as _____." It's the same way it's not cranky old lesbians and queens demanding that "queer" be adopted by homosexuals; it's the 20 year old pansexual genderfluid aromantic snowflakes. Actual Lesbians tend to prefer lesbian because it doesn't offer any ambiguity. It means you're exclusively sexually attracted to biological females, no penis, no ladydick, not ever, not happening. Considering everything as part of a spectrum allows people who do not belong in a community to force their way inside and then speak for everyone (in that example, heterosexual women who aren't totally opposed to one day dating a woman therefore they think they're "queer" and heterosexual men who identify as lesbians because clown world).
Say I have mild hearing loss, not even bad enough that it's truly noticeable but, idk, say I play an orchestral instrument and I can never tell when I'm flat because I can't hear my own instrument over the crowd (i don't, this is all hypothetical, just trying to think up an extremely limited circumstance under which mild hearing loss might be pertinent lol). I can then say I'm hard of hearing and part of that spectrum and try to identify into the deaf community even though I'm perfectly fine in 99.99999% of situations, I can't sign, etc. And then as part of this community my voice must be heard, even if my concerns are radically different than someone who is actually deaf.
In short: identity politics is fucking stupid and gatekeeping is a good thing.
Edit: words r hard