I suppose it will seem that way in retrospect, now we have a clear view of what was going on. All we knew at the time was that 'our' organisation was saying we needed to accept men who said they were women as women and that all our clever, more academic, more important lesbian leaders in Stonewall and other groups were just going along with it and expected us to do so too.
I think it's had a massively negative effect on lesbian women's confidence, unity and general well-being. As if we weren't second-class citizens anyway – and now the very organisations that were set up to support us and fight for us have betrayed us. So many women's centres, rape crisis centres, lesbian groups just rolled over and let men in.
There have been many, many times when I've wondered if I'm going mad because other lesbians who I thought were solid have kow-towed to transactivism and sought to persuade me that I'm the one with the problem. Fortunately now, partly thanks to this forum, GC lesbians are able to contact each other and support each other in the fight back and it doesn't seem so lonely. All the old local institutions where lesbians used to gather have gone. The lesbian-run cafe, the women's centre, the lesbian night at the local gay bar all gone because the T and Q folk muscled in and women fled. There are still lesbian walks and cafe nights and picnics and days out and gatherings, but all under the radar on closed FB or WA groups and all braced for the day a transwoman turns up.