> 2017-2021 wasn't a flourishing of trans rights and acceptance, it was the big wave of active discrimination Right, I didn't make the point clearly enough, I

> 2017-2021 wasn't a flourishing of trans rights and acceptance, it was the big wave of active discrimination Right, I didn't make the point clearly enough, I meant that pushback and resistance to what you mentioned created more net sympathy and progress. My hypothesis is that the ugliness of the extremism turns off all but their base.