The demise of the Tavistock clinic (for children with gender dysphoria) here in the UK is interesting in this context. While debates raged about children receiving "treatment" in the early last decade the Tavistock was often in tye debate. As an NHS Trust it had some of the aura that the NHS has generally here. If course all the debate assumed that all "trans" children were in fact boys wanting to be girls. And in all serious even 6 year old boys were said to able to know their "true gender". And the clinic supported the view that this should be "affirmed". As usual the public debate was very light on facts. About 2018 a commissioned report revealed that for some years in fact girls wanting to be boys were in the majority of the referrals to the NHS, in fact a growing majority. I remember reading this reported in the Times and even the BBC, and thinking this would derail the "trans train". And so it has proven, with the clinic closed and guidance issued to the NHS to treat gender dysphoria rather than affirm it. The key was of course the idea of abuse. For although only right wing fascists would oppose boy's wish for surgery and hormone therapy when clearly boys know their own minds. It turns out girls dont know their own minds and are subjected to abusive pressure clothed as "affirmation" and must be saved from such terrible abuse of their vulnerable young minds and bodies. And hey presto the Tavistock is shut down, "charities supporting "trans" have funding withdrawn and are investigated (for giving chest binders to teenage girls for instance). The morals are A. Few are much bothered about boys. B. Apparently boys reach a level of maturity to make such decisions at least a decade before girls, C. The way to get a volte face in public policy is to find female "victims" as to protect such victims supine bodies and professions will suddenly be jolted into action. Which brings me to Belfort Bax. For his "sentimental" feminism has the massive advantage of hooking into masculinity at it's most traditional, there really isn't anything more easy to do than get men and women, but men mostly, to take action to protect women and girls. Specially from other men. I suspect the Tavistock's demise from "centre of excellence" to closed would have been even faster had it not been that most of the Psychiatrists that worked there are women. This is of course the central contradiction of feminism, that it relies heavily on sentimental feminism to get Males to "save" the fairer sex from everything from "lack of confidence" to "mens violence" , with constant calls for more and more special considerations. In doing so it also assumes males are never similarly afflicted and are in fact always assertive self directing beings (even at age 6) a sort of back handed compliment. Yes the trans phenomena is a set of feminist ideas taken to their extreme. I wonder if any feminists reflect on the lack of "backlash" from men with regard to all those girls who trans to guys? I don't think I've ever heard of a protest about toilets, safe spaces, sports, changing rooms as males object to their "rights" being infringed. Doesn't it suggest women have many more "sex based rights"? While men, despite the patriarchy, have non.