Honestly, sometimes the fucked thing about backlash or opposition, is that it 'brings a community closer', and sometimes vulnerable sorts-of-people will follow shepherds with bad intentions, because they will tell their flock that what's coming for them would be so much worse than what ever could possibly lie ahead on the road that the shepherd's leading them down.
Like there's people who deserve to go hell, but then there's just people that those kinds of people have convinced that they are 'the good guys', no matter what.
Sometimes, you have to be very.... neutral in how you present yourself.
I think that in that case, that criticizing someone for a trait they can't help (i.e: feeling like they are supposed to be transgender, or having a mental illness) will just make righteous people more defensive for a somewhat reasonable reason.
I believe it works better to convince, when people point out other people's misdeeds, without blaming it on something that non-predatory people would also have...
You know, like, if there's people excusing the actions of some trans person who is abusive.... (on the basis that trans can do no wrong), I wish that many people would publically ask,
"Hey! What if a cisgender person did that? Would you defend them? (or a white heterosexual cisgender male yuppie scum... et cetera.)
Why don't you think trans people are human like everyone else, and capable of committing the same human acts as other people?
Do you not think trans people are normal people?"
or whatever some group is particularly saying.... if there's a way to use what they're saying against them, and show just how bigoted and mentally fucked up they are.
Because I've seen how some people will lie about 'the outside world' and pretend like all the goddamn cissies are out to get us, oh no.... and everything.
You have to evaluate the personalities of the people in a group... because everyone will react in an individual way.
Some people will just stay in a group until they die, even if they're not even 'really trans', if they think 'the outside world' is going to be hostile to them.
They could live productive lives without having to contort themselves into some gender box... but they could choose to just stick with it, even if they would be miserable as an actual transsexual. People make dumb decisions every day. Fads don't go away for everyone... even if they're just doing it because it's a fad.
They could keep chugging on principle until they see no reason not to neck themselves, because everyone 'just goddamn hates them so much, boo hoo, what did I ever do?'