I'm curious how much of this is lay people evaluating plausibility vs. politics. I only know the mandatory minimum of social science I was required to take in c

I'm curious how much of this is lay people evaluating plausibility vs. politics. I only know the mandatory minimum of social science I was required to take in college but if you understand that gender and lgbtq+ matters are de facto immune to real criticism then you can pretty easily guess which hypothesis are likely to be right/wrong by whether or not them being correct would validate a negative interpretation of any of those groups. Basically anything that harshes the vibe is a no go in American social science unless you can use it to criticize white people or cis people, if you know that then you can predict most big stuff since everything else is just rhetorical frameworks masquerading as science.