On Hate Groups and Language as a Tool

Yesterday I saw someone who is a very long term respected trans activist using the term “Hate Group” to describe the EHRC and this absolutely isn’t a call-out post, but it pushed my buttons about an issue I’ve been wrestling with for some months:

How do we start communicating more effectively with the institutional powers which are routinely failing us and welcoming hate groups, some of whom are explicitly set against our existence as trans people, without any sort of sensitivity or comprehension of what they’re even doing?