This may be the point:

“the last time I was in Bucharest, some of my Romanian friends said that there are people in Romania who openly long for the days of the Ceauşescu dictatorship, which was one of the worst in the communist world. Why on earth? I asked. Mostly because of gender ideology, they said. These people would rather live under hideous oppression than in a world that says men can be women and women can be men. The profound chaos of that idea is scarier to them even than dictatorship.”