I think that part of the problem here is globalisation and whats happening in the US, Canada and NZ.
Social media is largely US led and they are in the process of having a full on cultural war over women's rights and diversity in general. Plus its controlled by giantic health corporation with a vested long term interest which will seek to protect itself from legal challenge.
The significant part here is control of the supreme court though.
What I think will happen is the court will rule that states have the right to make rules on all sorts at an individual level. This will cause more authoritarianism in both blue and red states, which is untenable in terms of staying united as a country with one government and leader...
Control of english language social media is really important in this context. The Elon Musk v Twitter debacle is highly relevant to this. I've never thought Musk was serious about buying twitter. I think he wants control and power and in someways its more useful to him, to mess twitter about and disrupt internally whilst making a point about free speech (who i dont think Musk really believes in. Musk believes in Musks ego).
In this sense what we do in the uk in legal terms will remain somewhat marginalised for sometime.
Even if we come to our senses, we will have to endure the political and legal meltdown in countries that have taken it further already. This is problematic because of how tribal and entrenched us politics along religious grounds has become. Even if we legally put sex and gender back into their boxes in terms of definition, how do we control this on a global social media platform? We cannot block all thoughts and opinions from the US.
There isn't a sane way out for the US. Its one catastrophic meltdown that has decades to play out in court particularly because big pharma and healthcare have a lot of money riding on exploitation.
Its more akin to the prescription drugs scandal that has led to addiction and then onto illegal drug taking because culturally no one says no to the healthcare companies. Or challenges to the tobacco companies that took decades.
In terms of politics within the uk, I think it is slowly coming to a head and sanity will prevail here much sooner than other places, with less of the extreme tribalism. Purely because we aren't a nation of religious nutcases versus pseudo-religious nutcases.
As more stuff plays out the general population who aren't invested emotionally will eyeroll more at the absurdity.
But there's going to be a continued background noise and influence from blue loons in the US.
Ultimately this is about authoritarianism versus liberalism and globalisation and the impact of social media on democracy freedoms and idea. We still have a long way to go in how that plays out and a lot of that will rest on political control of the courts, which politicians are compromised due to their ownership and investment in big pharma and capitalist oligarchical control of social media.
So not down to the regular person on the street and political consensus building...
It will eventually implode cos its doing harm, but the us is particularly slow in resolving its shit in this area.