I got banned out of /r/games for asking "what rights trans people don't have that other humans do?" under post about someone yelling "trans rights are human rights" about Hogwart's legacy. Not being snarky at all, just curious (as I'm not from US and don't really get what the fuss is about).

Still haven't got a coherent answer out of anyone I asked, just insults

That... sounds like a very well deserved ban considering the topic, the reddit and everything that was happening around it.

As a moderator of online communities I'd do the same in a heartbeat. Take that to Twitter or somewhere.

How is that well-deserved? His comment was literally about the topic of the post, and the post was apparently allowed. "We allow politics but sorry, you're only allowed to have the Right Opinion here. Take all other opinions to Twitter!"

It's a good question, and one that their activists don't like answering because "the right to impose oneself on spaces designated solely for the opposite sex" isn't what most people would accept as a human right. So they ignore or block or ban or attack instead of engaging reasonably.

I don’t think anyone would take you seriously enough to give a coherent answer if you’re echoing the language of the bigots, even just unintentionally. It’s like asking “why should black people be able to use the same restrooms?” during the civil rights movement. Even as a totally honest and not at all disingenuous question, it blends into the rhetoric of the reactionaries.

The whole story related to Rowling supposedly being transphobe is crazy. All that canceling because she stated in a twit that "person who menstruate" is a stupid circumlocution around the word woman. Then, like religious taboo, it extended to whatever was linked to it. The irony is that all these cancelers are acting very 10-100 worst against whoever is the target of the anger than what happened to the people they are supposedly defending.

So you’re saying they have little interest in entertaining someone who just wants to culture war? And that’s somehow bad?

What are you speaking about? The company owning the father of all trading card game, which had a strong place in geek culture, is buying for millions a beloved IP very relevant to that demographic too and is making huge controversial changes to push for woke ideology and you claim that's the people rebelling against it are trying to start a culture war. This is pure victim blaming and shaming. That's outrageous honestly. Especially given the even the (worth watching) Peterson Jackson's movie adaption was already controversial to a part of the fanbase, and that the Amazon adaptation showed clearly that radical-left agenda wasn't welcome in the lore.

I mean but really who cares right? A fictional character is black, are the people worked up about this just children? Or just privileged? I struggle to understand why the intensity of people's feelings about this

Maybe re-read your post and consider whether it is really so inexplicable that a community focused on a trading card game doesn’t want that kind of outrage and vitriol.