Originally a comment by Nullius in Verba on Veering.

I recently joined the local YMCA because it’s the only gym within anything like reasonable driving distance. When filling out the application online, there was a gender identity field that was marked mandatory. Since I don’t play that game, I went the next day to ask about it in person. My mother went with me, as she was also incensed about it. The girls at the front desk weren’t even aware of the field, since it isn’t on the paper app. (They also were clearly unaware of the significance of the language.) In any case, they said they’d contact their CEO about the issue and have him get back to us. The next day, the CEO called my mother (because she’s the one who knows literally everyone who could make a real stink, not me), and promised at the end of their conversation to get back to her in early July before the next board meeting. He actually got back to her within the week to report that the offending field had been added by a third party without their knowledge. This, of course, is completely consonant with what we know of how the gender brigade goes about their mission, sneaking things in when and where people aren’t looking so that they can rely on the inertia of the status quo to cement what they’ve done.

I submit this as just anecdotal evidence that the bullshit TRAs have done by whining and complaining can sometimes be undone by vocal, unwavering objection.

Originally a reply by Mike Haubrich.

I spoke to the Greens at a table at a State Fair here in Minnesota, and even though they claimed to approach the environment and social issues with a scientific viewpoint, they were opposed to any sorts of GMOs, insisted that if we all became vegan we would solve global warming, warned that babies were pumped full of vaccines too quickly, etc etc, and they wanted to know my pronouns.

I declined their offer for me to donate to their party.