“You are very naive if you think this argument is over.”
I don’t think it is over. I think it will never again recover though.
I think that history will remember this era as a time when society was told to believe a fallacy that ‘TWAW’ and that it was because of feelings around identity and nothing else. Despite attempts to say that it was. Many people believed that there was a special group of people but then little by little what we were being told was shown to be false.
Of course, some people have gender dysphoria. It doesn’t make them the opposite sex and the trust and confidence that people had in the groups telling them that these people had to be affirmed and receive extreme body modifications as treatment has slipped dramatically.
And when you have Sporting federations who make rulings that make people are not female people based on scientific evidence, and you have departments in UK governments that say that for some purposes male people are not female people. Including for prisons and rape crisis.
And you have courts who agree that demanded pronouns can be ignored in court, and a court declaring that for purposes under the EA transwomen are men.
All this messaging has broken the hold of the mantras around TWAW. It was never true and yet the coercion at societal level to force belief was extraordinary. And those who tried to force it look like the bullies now after the emotional manipulation to make those who disagreed look like bullies.
Is the argument over? No. But it will never recover. Who is going to trust the people repeating this mantra now?