Philosophers and journalists have mostly turned tail

      "What first intrigued me about gender-identity ideology was the circularity of its core mantra, 'transwomen are women', which raises and leaves unanswered the question of what, then, the word 'woman' means. What led me to think further was the vilification of anyone who questioned it. Philosophers, who freely debate such thorny topics as whether it is moral to kill disabled babies or remove kidneys from unwilling people for donation, have, with few exceptions, been cowed into silence regarding the consequences of redefining 'man' and 'woman'. Journalists, who pride themselves on ferreting out the stories that someone, somewhere doesn't want them to print, have taken one look at paediatric transitioning, males winning women's sporting competitions and women being sacked for talking about the reality of biological sex—and, again with just a few exceptions, turned tail.
     "What finally pushed me to write this book, however, was meeting some of gender-identity ideology's most poignant victims. They are detransitioners: people who took hormonal and sometimes surgical steps towards transition, only to realize that they had made a catastrophic mistake."

     Helen Joyce, Trans:  when ideology meets reality (London:  OneWorld, 2021), 9.  On the other hand, "I will not seek to balance stories of those for whom transition has been a success, and those for whom it has been a failure.  Whether or not transition makes people happier is an important question for individuals and clinicians, especially when it involves irreversible hormonal or surgical interventions.  But it is irrelevant to evaluating the truth of gender-identity ideology, and to whether self-declared gender should replace sex across society" (5).