A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities

This person willfully admitted they are not black, which is far different than your criteria of someone who "believes that his soul is black, used to live in black bodies, and was mistakenly reincarnated into a white body on this occasion, but still feels black and carries memories of being black." The analogy falls apart because the stance is based on trolling, not actual beliefs.

The media does absolutely soak it for eyeballs and outrage, but at the same time it really is a bellwether for how gender works in a society at larger. Gender is simply a more social / less individual phenomenon than blindness itself is (to use your example).

I find it funny and illuminating to read about conservative cis gays complaining about those darn genderqueer "kids, these days". All media fads aside, we simply haven't reached "queer equilibrium" yet where increasing acceptance of past social categories no longer triggers the emergence of new ones.

I'm not going to read or respond to any of the comments in this thread because I don't want to self-harm today. However, I have to comment on the site linked in the article, noconflicttheysaid.org, because it's absolutely hilarious. It has stories about the supposed negative impact of trans women in women's spaces. I'm not cherry-picking; from the top, the stories on the first two pages are:

1. A woman and her two daughters went into a unisex bathroom. As you might expect, there were men there. Then nothing happened. Also, several years earlier, she went into a women's bathroom that indicated it allowed transgender women, but there weren't any there. https://www.noconflicttheysaid.org/post/scienceworks-immunol...

2. A trans woman in a Facebook group for mothers was trying to simulate a pregnancy and asked people there to share their experience with miscarriages since she knew she couldn't have a baby in the end. She also said she would like to breastfeed someone else's baby. As far as it's indicated, these requests were not made to anyone in particular, they were just posted in Facebook group. https://www.noconflicttheysaid.org/post/online-group-for-bre...

3. Some trans students at a girl's school don't have to wear the uniform, miss school a lot, and do school projects on transgender issues. Apparently, other students resent them for this. https://www.noconflicttheysaid.org/post/all-girls-senior-sch...

4. A trans woman cursed at some counter-protesters at a trans rights rally. In the included video, we see that this was in reaction to the counter-protesters (although not the same ones apparently) spraying water(?) at people. https://www.noconflicttheysaid.org/post/who-s-unsafe-on-camp...

5. A woman who was previously sexually assaulted by men says that she gets nervous and her body tenses up when she's sees a large man. She claims that this is something trans women will never understand. This is completely ridiculous: I myself have this reaction too if I'm alone or it's at night (in a way I did not before I transitioned), and I know other trans women who have similar anxieties about men in general. Anyway, the story is that a trans woman on a bus (where trans women have always been allowed) told some young women that they were pretty and asked them where they bought clothes and underwear. I'll admit that's a bit creepy, but no more so than things men already say to women in public spaces. And again, is the suggestion to ban trans women from buses? https://www.noconflicttheysaid.org/post/trans-woman-harassin...

6. There was a trans woman in a women's bathroom lingering near the sink. https://www.noconflicttheysaid.org/post/women-s-toilets-in-h...

"Radical Feminist" is the only part of the term that everyone agrees is not pejorative.

It is a real branch inside feminism, which lots of women identify with, and it doesn't mean what most people think it does.

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism

And the mechanism of this oscillation is people joining and leaving a movement.

In the beginning the radical idea is a basic kind of equality where some kind of person shouldn't be disadvantaged for some characteristic.

There is then a growth phase where many people join and small specific victories turn into general victories.

There is then a shrinking phase where people leave the movement or lose zeal as general victories are had.

The movement keeps much of its ideology capital and with the more moderate people losing interest, the median ideology moves towards special privileges for hyper-specific characteristics defended by a very real "the problem still exists".

The end stage is a movement that tries to conflate its extreme views as being equally as beyond question and equally morally right as the views during the growth phase, and you get conflict when people have a hard time sorting out the complexities of which is right and which is too far... and you get the backlash where the basic right is threatened by the connection with the extreme views... and so it goes.

The 21st century is the century of complexity, the basic problems are often solved and the complex ones need more nuance than the basic ones took... and the struggle is getting this point across that things aren't as simple as they were before.