There is no true free speech for anyone who's gender critical anymore. The above statement, which I'm sure we've all read countless times by now, assures that anyone writing critically against the gender cult could be targeted for harassment (online and offline), and might end up cancelled and out of a job. All this for speaking their mind, for having the 'wrong thought'.
How did this mantra gain such traction? How can there even be such a thing as a 'wrong thought'? If your speech has consequences, then it's clearly not free. TRAs even use the word 'deplatform' to describe what they're doing against adverseries. They use the excuse that when someone is 'a bigot' they can do whatever is needed to silence this person. However, in these cases, the word 'bigot' is never clearly defined. It's just anyone who disagrees with or criticises them. Therefore JK Rowling is called a bigot for writing clearly and compassionately, without any bigoted ideas whatsoever.
Freedom of speech should be free, meaning that every word, every thought should be permissable. An idea should be met with well thought out criticism, but not dogpiling or harassment. And a thought should be met with another thought, and not mantras.
Maybe TRAs don't like freedom of thought, because they have so few thoughts themselves.
I’m in the UK, so this may not apply everywhere, I think it gained traction because we stopped teaching people how to think in schools to instead teach them set answers so they got good test results. If these people actually were to think it through they’d realise that freedom of speech only exists where there is also freedom of consequences and this will effect them too, but right now only the people they dislike are being harassed or fired from jobs so it’s fine.