On a tangent
This is not just about living in a time when healthcare policy regarding children is being subject to control by activist groups.
Exactly the same thing is happening to adults with serious mental illnesses. Of course it is important to "empower" vulnerable individuals, whether children or vulnerable adults. It is always important to listen to what they have to say and to bear their choices in mind when creating policy.
The problem is that for decades (possibly longer) minority groups and various campaigning and activist groups have been bankrolled and influenced by outside actors. This phenomena has intensified with the advent of the Internet.
Sometimes genuine activist groups have been hijacked, I think that this was the usual way of doing things, but with the advent of the Internet certain actors have also created fake grassroots organisations in the virtual world, including on facebook and other social networking websites and have used these groups to influence policy.
One extremely easy way of harvesting contact details and compromising the lives of all kinds of political and minority activists has been via organising petitions and harvesting emails and telephone numbers.
Something that may appear to be an opportunity to help women or children or oppressed minority groups or even animals can be an initial point of contact with something quite sinister.
We all need to be careful about this.
We also need to be aware of the ways in which the movements for lesbian and gay rights have been appropriated, also the goddess spirituality movement and various apparently spiritual movements that claim to promote women's empowerment have in fact been appropriated and perverted into sinister machine that abuses and exploits children and vulnerable adults in terrible ways.
The TRA movement is just one aspect of this new are of manipulation, fake news and astroturfing.
One thing that we must be extremely cautious about IMO to to not fall into reactive, hostile dynamics with other oppressed groups. We must avoid witch hunts and black and white thinking. Staying thinking is difficult when you are expected to believe that a fish is a bird and a carrot is an apple.
This is, to some extent, an organised attack on thinking. Language is policed and dissent and sceptical, rational thought cannot be permitted.
This is exactly what the actors controlling these issues want to happen.