Hundreds protest on Boston Common

to make the 80% "normies" cringe and avoid.  Trans issues preeminent.  Not a way to build a mass movement.  

As a matter of politeness the Passport Agency should allow people to put their "expressed gender identity" or X on their passports, but I can see the contrary point of view in which the government needs to positively identify people and accurately and credibly identify them to other countries - by the category provided for, sex.

Other than that, no rights of trans adults are being violated.  There's no right to serve in the military with a condition requiring extensive medical treatment.  There's no right for children to be led into puberty blockers and mastectomies.  There's no right of biological males to compete in women's sports.

I understand why trans activists dominate such protests.  Of course they can't be excluded and have a right to protest, but if they had sense they would chill out and take a back seat in pursuit of the goal of getting rid of Trump.  Unfortunately, their need for others to "affirm" their own view of themselves is such a part of who they are that they would throw the First Amendment, women's sports, and the lives of children out the window.  They already threw the 2024 election out the window.  I sympathize with them, but it's a delusion.

Went back and re-viewed the segment. The demonstrators expressed a wide variety of issues wrt the actions of our chief executive - but in a segment over two and a half minutes long, there was less than ten seconds of an Iraq War vet speaking about trans rights. The piece had similar-length sound bites from several other speakers and members of the crowd with completely different themes.

I also went back through and looked at all the signs etc and about the only clear thing I saw wrt trans rights were a few seconds of two people waving a traditional pride flag and a trans flag.

The broadcast piece certainly did not portray a demonstration “dominated” by trans rights activists. The outrage seemed fairly heterogeneous.

Why isn't Facebook facing the same level of hate, and being shunned just as much as companies like Tesla? 

I remember well going to anti-Vietnam War marches in Washington DC over 50 years ago and having to sit through speeches by dozens of other interest groups that weren't really relevant to those of us who were just there to protest the war.

Rallies are often opportunities for other groups to build their brand. It's not something I particularly like, but it has always been part of the picture.

There's an illuminating study at Media Matters regarding the just how right leaning a majority of the non-mainstream media outlets have turned. This includes a vast majority of the popular podcasts and "news" websites, even ones which are nominally non-political. In a nutshell, the right leaning media is reaching an enormous audience. From the study: 

Right-leaning online shows had at least 480.6 million total followers and subscribers — nearly five times as many as left-leaning. 

Unless those who are anti-Trump figure out how to greatly enlarge their audience, nothing is going to change. The in-person protests are great (keep going!) but they don't reach people the way they once did. Something about the messaging needs to radically change.