IDK if sunken cost sums it up, but it's applicable everywhere from trans issues, progressive cultism in general, circumcision, and very much applicable to vaxx stuff... It's an enormous problem.

While chewing on it I keep coming to the conclusion that the only real solution to these dynamics requires a public acknowledgement that not all people are born equal, that some require the guiding hand of moral shepherds, sometimes for their whole lives. Also that the victims of widespread ideological abuses like this unfortunately may need to be removed from the discussion of how to solve it. It's the same thing as having an abuse victim who covers for their molester, or even helps them acquire new victims, but on a massive scale.