Whenever a piece of anti-trans legislation is introduced or passed, the activists always say don’t blame them, blame the anti-trans politicians.I actually don’t agree.

Well, I do. Oppressed people are not responsible for their own oppression because they weren't considerate enough, or too loud, or too stroppy, or too visible for the narrow-minded.

People will come to terms with trans persons in sports or they won't; but trans people are not responsible for their own oppression because they want to live their lives as they see fit. Trans people are not a problem to be solved.

There is a sense in the article that "trans activists" (I guess by which you mean stroppy, angry, marginalized persons who are fighting for their rights in the face of unprecedented hatred and misunderstanding, to the extent that their health, well being and safety are at grave risk) should just tone it down and stop spoiling it for everyone.

Also a sense that you consider that they're overreacting to TYT's "transphobia". What with the tone of the current backlash. and being legislated against as though trans people either don't exist or if they do, are a danger to society, I can totally see how TYT's opinions about what trans people should or should not do could be at least frustrating and at worst deeply offensive.

There's no comparison with strategizing for equal marriage. None. Trans people are fighting for recognition that they EXIST.

I think the Young Turks, well-meaning as they probably are, need to pull back, apologize for their gaffe and give trans activists the chance to educate them. (And us).

And by the way, no one in the history of the universe post-social media has EVER been cancelled. The Young Turks will continue their mainly excellent job of being allies, however misguided. Voices will be heard. Personally, I trust trans activists to know what's needed for their own liberation and their own act of taking their rightful space, loudly, obnoxiously, inconveniently, in all our faces, and with perfect right.

DR