Judith Butler is not the only academic who writes about this stuff nor is she personally responsible for TRA actions. And unlike a lot of the vacuous man-pleasing UK academics self-righteously (and wrongly) slating other feminists for being transphobic- Butler has faced particular personal opposition for her views and faced demonstrators particularly when visiting catholic countries about her academic views. She has for reason to write about Catholicism and her work.
This article is also written in the context of Hungary where authoritarian radical sexist government had shut down gender studies departments particularly and whole universities.
Ironically perhaps given the experiences of women in UK and other countries’ academia who are gender critical and face personal attacks and a loss of academic freedom on this basis, Butler is making a plea for academic freedom (which I would support).
Butler was not writing about the policing of everyday language, risks to children’s health, women’s right to opportunities for women only, and the fact that all women’s safety privacy and dignity is under threat by TRA ideas that are rapidly and without democratic examination being put into public policy. I wish she would.
But hopefully a UK academic like Clare Jones or Rosa Freedman or any of those brave women in academia who have dared to put their head above the parapet could write an article to point out those issues for those who don’t know. Or for those who are so wokely misogynistic they don’t care 
but who still desperately want to believe they are massively right-on and not in fact making boundsry-erasing arguments for dangerous, sexist numbskulls.