this denial-of-reality stuff is not what the left is about, it's bourgeois Hollywood limo-lib issues.
Sooner or later people will more freely state the fact that what people think or say they are isn't necessarily what they really are, and in many cases is plainly not. The use of social pressure and ostracism to force people into sharing a pretense can never make that pretense real, but it can turn a society fascist.
Mob dynamics are bad.