I sure hope the, "don't worry, the pendulum always swings back" rinos and boomers see how hard it is to put Humpty back together again. It's why "extremists" like myself say there must be a fight. Well, I convinced no one of that, they didn't fight, lost the schools and trans battle for several years, and now still have a fight, to root out the Lansings out of the hardened trenches.
Your last couple of sentences make it plain to me that even though we are removing the outer trappings of transgenderism, our internals, and our kid's internals, will be very messed up for a long time, and often having an internal doubt of confidence that asks oneself, "Am I offending someone or running a foul of rules?"
A student from China recently explained the Chinese population problem (no children) to me as follows.
1. Once upon a time, most Chinese were farmers, a dozen children each.
2. With industrialization, this became too many mouths to feed. Government decrees only one child per family.
3. After a while, they realized this is bad, children are important. They tell people they can have more children.
4. But, in China, there is a strong "children care for their aging parents" culture. So these only-one children were caring for two aging parents by themselves, and didn't want the responsibility of lots of their own children on top of that. So if they married at all, they still only had one child.
So the problem is now self-perpetuating. So yes, once a cultural defect is created, it can take a long time to remedy.
I sure hope the, "don't worry, the pendulum always swings back" rinos and boomers see how hard it is to put Humpty back together again. It's why "extremists" like myself say there must be a fight. Well, I convinced no one of that, they didn't fight, lost the schools and trans battle for several years, and now still have a fight, to root out the Lansings out of the hardened trenches.
Your last couple of sentences make it plain to me that even though we are removing the outer trappings of transgenderism, our internals, and our kid's internals, will be very messed up for a long time, and often having an internal doubt of confidence that asks oneself, "Am I offending someone or running a foul of rules?"
A student from China recently explained the Chinese population problem (no children) to me as follows.
1. Once upon a time, most Chinese were farmers, a dozen children each.
2. With industrialization, this became too many mouths to feed. Government decrees only one child per family.
3. After a while, they realized this is bad, children are important. They tell people they can have more children.
4. But, in China, there is a strong "children care for their aging parents" culture. So these only-one children were caring for two aging parents by themselves, and didn't want the responsibility of lots of their own children on top of that. So if they married at all, they still only had one child.
So the problem is now self-perpetuating. So yes, once a cultural defect is created, it can take a long time to remedy.