Academics do a lot of damage in academic circles, especially if their BS writing gets made mandatory in university courses, but like you said, the real power players are worse.

Trudeau, Biden, other countries' leaders who spout this crap and every legislative body that gets this crap made into LAW -- there's the biggest source of the damage.

For LGB people, it's compounded by every LGB organization adding the T and throwing LGB under the bus. And the painful part there is fellow LGB have done this. Wokeism is brainrot, but that couldn't have been a very healthy brain to begin with if it embraced this BS so easily.