Kulturkampf

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By virtually any measure, trans activism has failed in the US. It has proven itself a decisively losing electoral issue, been repudiated by the Supreme Court, lost the culture war, alienated a majority of society, and caused public opinion to turn against trans people. Trans activism ignited a trans backlash — one whose flames now threaten to consume LGBT rights more broadly.

https://www.queermajority.com/essays-all/how-to-fix-what-ails-trans-activism

When the American public was first polled about trans issues, their responses showed a remarkable open-mindedness. But the more they were exposed to trans activism, the more their opinions soured. In 2017, 44% of US adults believed that it was possible for one’s gender to be different from their biological sex, whereas 54% thought that one’s gender could not be different from their sex. In the half-decade that followed, transgender nonprofit funding increased by more than 113%. Yet by 2022, public opinion had moved in the wrong direction, with just 38% of Americans saying that one’s gender can be different from their sex, and 60% saying that being a man or a woman is determined at birth (that figure is 68% today).