it was pretty funny to see them just rip each other apart over International Womxn's Day a few years back, one half just assuming "the TERFs" had come up with the term to imply trans women weren't female all the way, and the other half scuttling to cover up that it'd used to be mandatory

not so FUN, is it? having a bunch of teenagers scream in your face that a common word must be banned overnight, that it costs nothing to Just Be Nice, to constantly look over your shoulder for outside permission ever time you open your mouth like the Turpin kids

it was like watching Rowling suddenly see the mob turn against her, or that Primos actor getting ripped for saying you shouldn't have to speak Spanish properly because of conquistadors

really what'd happened is that 2013-6 everyone just gave in to whatever group was storming the administration building that day--everything they said "sounded" right, they were all on "your" side politically (or at least aesthetically leftish), and digging deeper into claims was seen as a gross sign of disrespect and aggression (showing you've already decided to doubt them--it's like swabbing down Auschwitz or digging up Native school graves)

[this ties to something TAs have noticed, that the students look at the TEACHER/TA whenever they ask a question, since they want to give the "good" answer rather than the correct one]