If someone calls you a racist, then are they engaging in racial blackmail?
Racial blackmail does to political blackmail what race has done to critical theory, respin something old with a racial component to be used as a political weapon. In this case, a defense to the constant cries of racism.
Can cries of "gender blackmail" and "trans (or gender identity) blackmail" serve as additional shields against calls of bigotry and transphobia?
Political blackmail is the threat of exposing, or the actual exposure, of true, but more often invented, “stories” with the aim of causing an opponent political damage, of slandering him, of depriving him of the possibility of engaging in political activity, or of making it difficult for him.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/political_blackmail_empowers_the_american_left.html
The only ones to come up with a better game was the Bolcheviks.