This thread is amazing.
It really, really does show how out of touch a good number of MN posters are with the rest of the country.
The GC obsessives, who have for years said " at least the Tories know what a woman is" so are prepared to overlook all the damage done to women by the Tories over the last 14 years just because they make some pandering noises to their prejudices. Thread after thread, year after year, of hyperbolic and bullying language towards trans people or anyone that might seek a slightly different approach to them, and the absolutism that this is the most important issue right now.
Most people don't think it is, in fact outside of the odd Daily Mail clickbait most people never think about it. Outside of MN, virtually no one thinks this is a major issue either politically or in terms of risks to women and children, you know why? Because it really isn't. There are far, far bigger issues for both that need fixing, and whatever the solution to the issue regarding trans rights, they aren't going to be your absolutist ones.
Also the private school parents, who for years have told MN that privately educating your child is about choices, and that they make SACRIFICES in order to send their children to private school, in a rather holier than thou way. Now there is thread after thread after thread with special pleading about why this shouldn't occur, and won't someone PLEASE think of the poor children who's parents are very ordinary and have made SACRIFICES.
The problem, is that most people have eyes. We know who privately educates their children, we have friends and family, we can see the cars at the school gates and the students they drop off. The data on who privately educates their children shows that participation rates only rise from close to zero % of children in each household income decile, once you get to the top one. In fact it only raises above one at the 90th percentile, and above 5% at the 95th. Do you know how much money you have to have to be able to get into the 90th percentile? 125k, net. This totally corresponds to what people see for themselves. There are some below this on bursaries ( but apparently 4/5 below the 90th percentile are paying full fees) but really, it isn't that many.
They don't want to pay this, so the noise they've made has been huge, like I said, special pleading, making veiled threats about migrating their children so those of ordinary folk are pushed out of good education, leaving the country, reducing their hours. All the while whinging about how HARD they worked and about how the are net tax contributors and must be treated with special privileges.
Both groups need to hear something.
Most people don't care about your issue.
All of the millions of words you've written, all of the hot air? Most people don't care. They are ambivalent at best or, in the case of the VAT on private school fees, broadly in agreement with it.