The compassion was a mistake, in at least two ways.

@hoovlet validated a cult ideology built on "gender identity", an optional, deeply selfish construct most humans are unfamiliar with.

And she validated the cult rite of using proprietary pronouns – incorrect pronouns wrt a person's actual sex. (No one needs to care about "gender" at all.)

That was a mistake because cults should be opposed, not embraced, and the ideology is false insofar as they assert that everyone has a "gender identity", that sex or gender are "assigned at birth", and so on.

Any credible scientist should say absolutely not to such claims, since they're false, and in the latter case, Orwellian.

The second mistake is that showing compassion while disputing any element of leftist ideology just triggers their malice and hatred. It seems to makes you a bigger target than if you simply rejected the whole ideology like Matt Walsh or @MeghanEMurphy.

Leftists don't process conciliatory gestures the way normal people do. The left is a cult. They think there's a wave of violence against trans people. (It doesn't matter when it is, what year, what month – there's always a wave of escalating violence or "extremism". Their activists and legacy media just lie about it constantly.)

There's no commitment to truth or integrity in leftist ideology, or underneath it. There's no virtue ethics. It's just the cult political ideology – they're not rewarded or extolled for displaying integrity or curiosity. Those aren't their values. If you dispute anything, they attack – they don't have the habits of mind of scholars.