Thanks for this, JMG! We have a similar phenomenon currently here in Germany of (trans-)gender activists entering unrelated progressive causes and demanding gender activism from the group. If the group declines, they are Bad People. If they yield, they lose support among otherwise sympathetic supporters and get generally confused themselves which activism is their actual agenda.
For instance, someone I know started a very popular referenderum for bike lanes and was subsequently thrown out of his own campaign for not furthering gender-related causes. Now the campaign writes newsletters that are a pain to read because of their newspeak and they lost support among conservative groups that were actually in favor of bike lanes.
Regarding newspeak: German has gender-specific nouns and gender activists famously demand asterisks * everywhere to make sure that the male and gender-neutral version refers to women and every kind of trans-gender bicyclist as well - "Radfahrer" (meaning male bicyclists or - usually - all bicyclists) becomes "Radfahrer*innen". Multiply that by every noun that refers to a group of people and it quickly becomes quite an asterisk-fest.
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For instance, someone I know started a very popular referenderum for bike lanes and was subsequently thrown out of his own campaign for not furthering gender-related causes. Now the campaign writes newsletters that are a pain to read because of their newspeak and they lost support among conservative groups that were actually in favor of bike lanes.
Regarding newspeak: German has gender-specific nouns and gender activists famously demand asterisks * everywhere to make sure that the male and gender-neutral version refers to women and every kind of trans-gender bicyclist as well - "Radfahrer" (meaning male bicyclists or - usually - all bicyclists) becomes "Radfahrer*innen". Multiply that by every noun that refers to a group of people and it quickly becomes quite an asterisk-fest.