While hijacking movements is real, in this case I might describe it more as shifting rhetorical tactics. The clarity that distinguishing sex and gender was bringing turned out to sometimes play against the later demands that there be no meaningful distinction between trans and cis "women", so it was dropped - for the most part silently, as if the "truths" taught in earlier DEI sessions had never been spoken, the scripts just changed and now a new unquestionable "truth" becomes mandated by mostly the same group of people. (ie: Activists and DEI "educators", not speaking of all trans people, many of whom are pretty sane but quieter)
Well articulated. It sounds as if a movement was hijacked by power-seekers. Any idea when and by whom?
While hijacking movements is real, in this case I might describe it more as shifting rhetorical tactics. The clarity that distinguishing sex and gender was bringing turned out to sometimes play against the later demands that there be no meaningful distinction between trans and cis "women", so it was dropped - for the most part silently, as if the "truths" taught in earlier DEI sessions had never been spoken, the scripts just changed and now a new unquestionable "truth" becomes mandated by mostly the same group of people. (ie: Activists and DEI "educators", not speaking of all trans people, many of whom are pretty sane but quieter)
That makes sense. Although all the language policing is starting to feel more and more like a hijack of common sense!