The core political strategy of liberalism (the actual definition, not the way people use it) is to signal social justice issues in order to buy populist favor. Meanwhile the policy is to make tiny incremental changes to keep favor with the masses so that they don't revolt over the real policy moves to favor corporations and transfer wealth to the upper class.

Trans ideology is perfect for this because it is filled with absolutely vapid talking points which the politicians can repeat to get woke populist capital but then they don't actually need to implement any meaningful policy.

The clear problem arrives when you follow the nonsensical arguments to their logical conclusions. You start trying to put male rapists in female prisons which anyone with more than 1 braincell can see is a terrible idea. So they change course and send the male rapists to male prisons which causes the gender ideology to go crazy and then you get asked to resolve the paradox and their brains explode.

To a normal person it is not a paradox because the person is just literally a male and should go to a male prison. To a gender ideolog it is also not a paradox because they believe the person is just a woman and should go to a female prison. To the liberal politician trying to signal the issue it is suddenly a messaging paradox because there is no way to say the correct answer.