This, of course, is common across the ideological and sociopolitical spectrum. The loudest, most dogmatic individuals within whatever extreme presume to dictate what is the exact way to speak and behave… without regard for the context or true priorities of a complex situation they have no experience with or true knowledge about. It’s self-righteous Monday morning quarterbacking.

The younger generation of trans folk are particularly good at eating their own. This uncompromising stridency only divides an already fragile alliance, disenfranchises allies who no longer know how to support them and gives bigots more ammunition to keep scapegoating and othering marginalized folks.