Which ones ?
If you want to declare trans rights an unreasonable proposition, an easy way to do it is to find the most extreme activist - who says children need surgery or example - and make them the spokespeople for the movement.
This is what the tabloids do.
Right, but my facebook friends are not the centre of the movement either.
I don't think the activists demanding that people they consider "TERFs" be silenced are extremists within the movement... they seem to be the mainstream of the movement. Judging from the success they've had, they're being treated as if they're the mainstream, at least.
Your friends might not be the brains of the movement, but they're helping provide the muscle. Their social media voices, along with large numbers of others like them, is what gives these activists the clout to demand that professors be fired or that speakers be deplatformed or that Body Blitz change their policy.
-k