Exactly. I think most of us were like this. Enabling it to gain traction so quickly.
This website gives a log of good information, links, evidence, background. Shocking most of it. Or may be not.
Just one page talks about the development of the extreme transgender movement (taking women’s and children’s rights) and fire it happened so quickly.
‘The paper outlines the strategy of the transgender movement and it’s inherently anti-democratic tactics. Instead of winning hearts and minds they have appealed to authority, change laws, often by stealth, bypassing a public conversation. Their appeal is based on a fallacious victimhood; deployed to guilt and shame people into accepting their minority world view. This is combined with a suppression of debate and repression of alternative perspectives’
https://gendercriticalwoman.blog/2023/05/21/transgender-movement-fascism/