Thought for the moment:

The difference between the right and left is not great, but there is one.

The right would happily kill anyone who doesn't embrace its lifestyle and values, but at least that means that there is someone, somewhere, that they wouldn't happily kill. The left, on the other hand, perpetually eats its own, perpetually radicalizing itself and purging people for holding positions which were last year's mainstream leftist thought.

This means you cannot be a friend to the left. Not "should not", not even "must not", but CAN NOT. No matter how much you comply with them, it will never be enough, they will find an excuse to hate you, shun you, cancel you, and eventually kill you.

It is much safer to be their enemy, because at least then you can band together with their other enemies and fight them.

@woodsmoke

The lefty loonies co-opted "gender" a couple decades back as yet another Trojan horse in the culture war.

My position on the whole thing is that "the Right" EARNED the state of cultural affairs they find themselves in, by actually BEING the party of active homophobia for decades running. Arguably, official and mainstream Right Wing branded policies and procedures did worsen the extent and the social and financial impact of the AIDS epidemic. For all the talk of individual liberty and self-determination, "the Right" made it a central part of its "brand identity" to pit themselves as enemies of the gay community in the name of "Family Values." They long went out of their way to set up legal obstacles and break up families.

The culture war you attempt to dismissively blame came about in RESPONSE to long entrenched and partisanized oppression of gay people. Some of the same obstacles straight men face in family court today were normalized and strengthened when originally applied against the gay subculture.

"First they came for the gays, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't gay. By the time they came for me, there was nobody left to speak up."