Yeah, it's kind of crazy. I'm a democrat and pretty left politically and vote a Dem ticket every time. I believe in rights of all people- all people should not face hate, should love who they choose, be able to marry, etc. If they feel nature got their gender wrong, then transition, and live your true self.
But I'm also not mad at JK Rowling one bit. All she has ever said is that a biologically born woman (equipped with reproduction organs) IS a unique state from being a trans woman (that will never have those organs even after all the surgery)
Or that maybe someone who looks like this:
can't put a dress on and have free reign to use the women's room. (And for the record, yeah, that's Grizzly Adams, and sorry I don't mean to besmirch poor late Grizzly, just using as visual example), but there is this very small subset who says that all it would take is for Grizzly to say he's a girl, put on a dress or maybe some heels, and then he would get free reign to the lady's room.
And that would be crazy! Any rational person would think that's nuts. But to that small subset of people- no, Grizzly is definitely a woman because "they" say so. And if you disagree- then you are a bigot and basically no different from a KKK member or something. And that's just clearly not true, and most everyone knows it.
Unfortunately, this is a problem in our world because the narrative takes hold and despite 95% of people who are kind of like, yeah, this is too much, everyone has to acquiesce to the 5%, when the majority should be telling them that, no that's wrong and not how it works.
And ERA, taking things further and just straight up disallowing discourse about videogame, which contains NONE of these politics or any direct involvement of Rowling, is crazy, and it's also wrong. I'm glad to see the title gain support, have always been a fan of the Potter world, and can't wait to play it in a few weeks.