I agree there's limited organizing because face it, it takes MONEY. Corporations are funding the Trans Craze. We could (and should) use exclusively LGB when referring to "community" (like we're all one big happy family -- hardly!) and call our representatives to voice our concerns over Trans Insanity, but we're not Kelloggs or Nabisco or any other global brand name. We're not Big Pharma. Anything we do is going to be grassroots simply due to lack of funding.

You summed up so many of our problems here. We're fighting the combined institutional powers of Big Business, academia, and the government.

I don't know about y'all, but I don't have much spending power. I also don't have tons of time or mobility.

There are ways to optimize online communities as a way to lobby for your cause with the general public and especially to influence media narratives. It can't replace traditional political activism but it is something that regular people can do that is genuinely effective.

If you conceptualize our current massive social conflicts as a war (which many do) online communities are a facet of 4th generation warfare and are being used very effectively by conservatives in the culture war

Online communities are suited to asymmetric power imbalances in particular- when one group maintains a massive political advantage over another.