When you call safeguarding of children 'phobic' in anyway you open the door for others to fill the void you leave behind.
Enter Elon Musk. A man whose child has been harmed by an ideology which is not reflective of reality and has no medical science of any repute to back it up.
And he's pissed. And almost looking for revenge / whatever you want to call it.
That's more dangerous than a man who just wants power. He's has an enormous sense of injustice and probably rage. That's not cool and won't end well.
He's then looked for other areas he sees harm to children from authority too afraid of activists and political correctness to question actions that are questionable.
The problem is there has been clear issues with ethical practice and abuses of power within institutions that have gone on for a long time. And his sense of injustice is actually well founded.
The insanity of not questioning the trans movement is going to unravel over the next few years not because of prejudice but because of the weight of its own bullshit imploding as kids realise that transitioning isnt a magic bullet and the medical lawsuits ramp up.
A lie can not be maintained indefinitely. At some point it always cracks and collapses.
And yes there is a problem with overbearing censorship which fails to allow concerns to be heard - it lets them fester and be twisted into conspiracy theories. We might not like to talk about this, but the question of who controls the censors is one we should talk about. It's about power and accountability of governance and an inability to admit when there are problems because there's always someone there to spin and protect arses.
Elon will again gain traction purely because there is a genuine problem in this area. However it will snowball into an unpleasant backlash taking away progress we've made in areas of inequality as a result of incompetent management.
All this ultimately suits people like Musk in the long run because it shifts power to him and ironically undermines safeguarding / protections in other areas. He stands to ultimately gain. However I don't think that it's his motivation ultimately though. I think he's just a guy who has been let down by incompetence of leadership so he's 'on a mission'. This isn't true of others though who will ride on Musk's coat tails in a much more cynical way. He's a useful idiot to some who do seek power for power's sake.
None of this makes for a good combination.
Good governance includes healthy self criticism and internal reflection from all sides. Unfortunately we've had a period where dissenting voices have been labelled as 'a problem' so politics and institutions have basically gone nuts rather than ask questions. There's far too much unthinking and 'just following orders' that's gone on because no one wanted to ask the difficult questions as it's career killing.
We are where we are because of a dynamic of arse covering and shutting down critical thinking from multiple sections of the political spectrum.
When people who are thinking critically and are recognising genuine problems in a proportionate without going nuts get smeared as bigots it doesn't help anyone.
The situation is one created by people unwilling to listen. It's not one created by an evil bogie man billionaire as much as people seek it to be.