I think although it entered into the public awareness later, is not just queer politics entering universities but immediately with no second thought, universities just cancelled women's studies, and replaced them with gender studies.
What this says more than anything is that although Women's Liberation did obviously make huge changes, those changes were only skin deep. One slight challenge and they were swept aside. ie there could have been women's studies (one perspectice) and gender studies (another perspective). Instead women as a significant facture, or consideration in society had just not been embedded.
At the same time in wider society there was a huge back lash against women's liberation, not just in the "its gone to far" but the cooption of women being equal turned into commercial trends such as ladettes.
Then there was 3rd Wave Feminism, also a product of queered universities, who were taken up by the media far more than 2nd Wave ever was and a large part of their politics was that women's liberationists were harpies who hated men. 3rd Wave was not based on the fundamental of Women's Liberation that women as a sex class are oppressed by the sex class on men. 3rd wave was intersectional so it was an anatherma to try and say that white women were oppressed because of their sex. .
And the basis of queer politics that sex isn't "real" but gender is, is as much part of trying to erase that women as a sex class not only have a shared basis on which to organise, but it intrinsically says that men are the oppressing class.
If you can persuade people that sex isn't real, then how can women be oppressed as a sex, and how can men as a sex be the oppressor.
This is where the TRA is built on the long standing partriachal sense of superiority of the MRAs.
You only have to compare the difference that the wider public had to the notion that you identify as a race that you weren't (ie Rachel Dolezal) which was widely seen as unacceptable, compared to the notion that a man can, through claiming that identity, be a woman.
ie in terms of society as a whole, even those who accept there are women, women have no status.
Nobody stopped to think how does this impact on women. Nobody thought what would the impact be on children.
And in a sense feminism have been attacked by the male backlash of the 80s and 90s and then underminded by 3rd wave feminism, the in fact extremely professional and linked networks of TRAs were able to infiltrate and become intergral to all sorts of decision making positions. Media, politics, etc., etc..
And sadly many women just sort of accepted that WLM was sort of an exception, one off.
It wasn't until (in the UK) women as individuals, as much as as groups, were galvinised by the consultation on the GRA (which the then W&EC put before any women's issues).
This created a whole new wave of women's activism, not all of it feminist, but definitely about sex based rights.
So when I said earlier that the GRA was as much a trojan horse as a be kind initiative, many of us were just not aware of how many TRAs had been working effectively in embedding themselves.
There was a very good thread about this, and how (much as those charts that show how there are connections, often on a personal level) queer activists had relentlessly worked to get into positions of influene. Meanwhile women were on the outside not aware, or even thinking this was happening.
Sadly the posters who had a lot of the information about these networks have left FWR, but I remember there was talk of creating one of those charts of influence. Just in your own mind think where they hold sway, the UN, the EU, and so on. And behind that there are often links through individuals.
I think FWR has lost that focus, and whilst it allows us to left of steam about the most recent trans attack on women's sex based rights, it doesn't have as many of us who have an understanding of the history.
eg I can remember the discussions but (which is true for me in most things) cannot remember the various TRA groups and networks.
Part of the problem (IMO) is that on one level it is all so absurd and impropably that to begin with no on took it seriously. Why would anyone think politicians, the medical profession, law etc., etc., would all accept this new belief sect, that you can change sex. Because it is a belief. It isn't a fact.
(sorry too many late night typos to properly correct 
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