I have a very liberal co-worker and we get along (we never discuss politics) and she went on a rant about about trans rights and the ban on the transing of children in Texas and gave the usual screed about old white men and then she kept going on about how she couldn't believe anyone would be stupid enough to vote for Gov. Abbott. That was when I told her that I had voted for him and she was shocked and said she thought I was more progressive. I then asked her if a kid can tell you that he/she is the opposite sex and we have to take that as the gospel truth, then why can't a 10 year old tell me that he wants beer for him and his friends at his birthday party because he is mature enough to make such a decision. Heck, why have any restrictions for kids?
She told me it wasn't the same thing and walked away. I remember about 20 years ago someone told me that the end game for the lgbt activists (not the ones who truly want to be left alone of course) was pedophilia and I told him that he was being paranoid. Now, I fear that the day is common with the mainstream media will openly defend pedophilia once they can "normalize" a kid changing their sex.
Conservatives are naturally obedient and deferential towards authority. Because for most of history, authority has enforced that which was necessary: social order, property rights, national defense. They have no antibodies against authority that has become cancerous, until it is too late.
This is why, I think, the most effective people at fighting the current rising tyranny are either former leftists or current leftists. Or others, like DJT. Anybody but conservatives.
American conservatives are some of the most obstinate motherfuckers ever. Their problem is more so that their resistance is so clockwork, it can be co-opted easily.