no one is forcing GC to continuously take the bait (and frankly it's embarrassing how we always do)

I mean, most people don't check who is posting every thread, they just read the title and the description (oftentimes not even the latter). You can't really tell the difference between your average troll and QT at first glance, as the behaviour of the two is fairly similar. Back on Reddit, the vast majority of any "discussions" would end the same way: QT asks a very basic "gotcha" question, GC answers like every time before, QT disappears, oftentimes back to their trans space for comfort, complaining about GC bigotry. Most QT posters were woefully unprepared for the fact that their questions actually had pretty easy answers because their community has convinced them that "transwomen are women" is such an infallible argument that the notion of it, well, not being so came as a shock, and disengaging from the discussion and pretending it never happened would be the only way to preserve said worldview in face of evidence to the contrary. The comparatively smaller number that would remain to argue seems to have been the worst proponents of ladybrain theories who lacked any self-awareness of how misogynistic they sound, probably because they come from male-dominated communities less aligned with liberal feminists so they didn't get the memo that you're supposed to package your misogyny in something nicer than "Female brains make women cry at romcoms and want to wear makeup".