In the bigger picture I think a big factor in why we're going backward is that for, say, people under 40, if not 50, the way things have been most of our lives have been in place long enough (at least in the US) that we take our current situation totally for granted and have been able to ignore what a role the limits of female biology can play IF we're not protected by law. That is, being age 45 it never occurred to me, for most of my life, that we'd ever really lose Roe v. Wade (again, speaking as an American), or that people would be claiming moral righteousness in giving women's resources and private spaces to men, and I think with the latter, people my age and younger having never really experienced a time when women truly did not have guaranteed female-only spaces, they don't see the need for them, if that even makes sense. We don't have the cultural memory the Boomers have of times when women couldn't have their own credit cards, there were no birth control pills, women were required to wear skirts, etc. etc. It's incredibly tiring to think about but we may need to experience actual, material, consequences all over again.