All I can say is that right now, with all these anti-trans bills getting passed, transition being criminalized, trans people getting erased from public life, and a barrage of propaganda equating us with pedophiles, this is the least positive I have ever felt about our standing as trans people.

All of that is not a result of this though.

I think you are allowing despondency caused by other things to colour the judgement you are applying to this particular thing.

but it pisses me the fuck off that our team just wasted a month fighting over a fucking PS5 game.

I don't see why you think any time at all was "wasted" on this. This is treat time. Treat time would have been treat time regardless of whether or not that treat time included a culture war within it.