Superb article.
And as we now see, it was an unmitigated disaster. Quite apart from wrecking lives, the project was stupidly counterproductive. Over time, it caused people to become a lot less conscientious about how they talked and thought about trans-identified people generally — and also about gays and lesbians, often pulled unwillingly into the alphabet soup. For, once the big guns had been wheeled out against politely accurate sentences and age-old habits of mind, there was no effective social cudgel left to wield against genuinely poisonous discourse.
A lot of social change comes from moderate people gently pushing back against racism, homophobia, true transphobia etc in their families and communities. If you start calling those moderates 'bigots' and telling them to 'die in a grease fire' because they are not fully onboard with every social justice utterance, then many of them will stop pushing back against the true bigots and may even start to consider whether the bigots might have a point. What happened in Stonewall was a complete failure to understand human nature.