Social media debates are confusing, because some part of me, at least, still thinks of them in the same terms as debates in the physical world where we know the participants and have a rough idea of how many other are on each side of the debate, how many just ignore the debate, how many get their popcorn out to enjoy watching it, and so on.
But the online world is not the same. For one thing, we have no idea about how many people are watching the debate (if any are), how many agree with one side or the other (because there are strong incentives to avoid expressing support for an opinion which gets you cancelled), and with some obvious exceptions about public people, we have no idea if we are listening to the somewhat deranged speaker at a street corner, warning us about the oncoming apocalypse or someone who actually has credentials about the topic that is debated.
We don't know how many participants are bots, how many are fifteen-year olds getting a kick from just destroying everything, how many are paid operatives of foreign powers, how many are the hand puppets of one of the debaters, and so on.
We don't really know what Twix (or X or Twitter) thinks about anything (it doesn't think as it's not alive), because most people there don't follow, say, the gender identity debates, and we don't know if people actually are, say, gender criticals when they state that they are, so we don't even know what some imaginary unit called 'the gender criticals' might think.
But somehow it all feels as if the whole world is watching, as if large chunks of it are participating, and as if the nasty comments of some odd person do reflect the opinions of multitudes, who by their silence, say, seem to agree with the opposing person's posts. And at the same time everything is opaque, as if we are diving into a dark well where the sharks wait, to smell blood in the waters.
What I'm trying to say is to try to stay skeptical about the meaning of things like this, in terms of attempting to gauge the numbers of people with various beliefs. And, as always, to remember that the social media participants in political topics tend to be more extreme than the voters, and that much of the attention is for the messages of a fairly number of (male) participants, such as famous journalists.
On the actual topic, I am sad that Doyle feeds the need to distance himself from the GC movement. I have also not come across any homophobia by gender critical women in my recent surfing on X.