I definitely can't get worked up about the needing a GE to choose the PM line I've seen trotted out. We do not have such a system. You need to be a party member to choose the leader. The electorate then either likes who's chosen or they don't (among other influencing factors).
Seems like this whole agenda grew legs with the GRA (Labour esp Lammy) and then got a turbo boost under the Tory/LD coalition. It's clear no one close to power or decision making (Tories and LDs) looked at it hard enough. Or that they did and waved it through anyway (Mordaunt seems to appear around this time: www.conservativesforwomen.org/penny-mordaunt-helped-to-push-gender-ideology-out-across-every-institution-in-the-uk).
Once we - the electorate (or parts of it) - started to cotton on, it seems like the approach was to ignore it or treat it as a side issue. But we all persisted. And to be fair to the Tories, they've at least hosted a debate and a range of views on it.
It's now clear that the harms are real and not existential. Even so, Sunak could have not addressed it in the summer or addressed it only in the safe, narrow sense of transing minors, subject to a review. He didn't. He went wider than that - I assume having had a crash course from an advisor.
There's quite a list of Tories who are talking about it. They could either ignore it or support it with daft placards, like Labour. Or propose policies that silence their own like the Greens and the LDs. Instead we're in the topsy turvy situation where the Opposition - to whom this should have been a fucking gift - have been cheering on an ideology that harms children and women, and makes excuses for sex offenders to get out sooner and pose a danger to the public.
Meanwhile, the current government (which is in a total tailspin) looks more likely than not, to be poised to address it. Which will mean the hard truth that it happened on their watch.
Sunak could ignore it. He's so rich, it's unlikely to ever affect him or his girls. But that isn't what's been happening.
Any government is going to have to make cuts. We'd arguably be making fewer of them if the Opposition had done its job and questioned lockdown. Again, that was down to the Tories being much more of a broad church than us having a probing Opposition.
Once we lose our sex-based rights or rights to say no to the state taking our kids because we don't affirm their gender identity, those rights are gone.
While they're still in power, the Tories need to fix the mess that started under Labour and got much much worse under them. I'll be grateful to them if they do, and if they make it impossible for Labour to bring in "gender identity" or self-ID, or permit the kinds of activity we've seen happen in the charity sector, public sector, and at GIDS.