I'll tell you what: I'll admit that one side has put too much emphasis on the freedom to choose one's sexual identity if you'll admit that the other side has put too much emphasis on resisting such choices.

I appreciate the effort to be conciliatory but I think this undermines the point you were making. Anti-scientific thinking has proliferated in left-wing spheres since the mid-2010s. This was one obvious example, but you also have the rejection of psychometrics and heredity (admittedly more among academics than actual scientists), an (albeit brief) embrace of Modern Monetary Theory, and then the “Trust the experts, believe in science” mantra of the early 2020s.

I just don’t see a lot of evidence to support the idea that progressives are exceptionally rational.