Orthodoxy

For the vast majority of us, our education around sex and gender beginning very early in childhood is the most profound and pervasive of our lifetime. Everything in society operates around it and there are politics surrounding it which are felt every day of our lives. Small wonder then that to infringe upon the rules surrounding this fundamental system can amount to heresy. 

Once the science around gender variance began to develop in the early 20th century, we started to realize that for some people this was a much more serious issue than for others. There were gradations present where some required medical intervention to lead normal lives. 

The interesting thing to note here is that the rigid rules around the binary created much of the problem for people who didn't fit properly within its constraints. In other words, much of the instruction we were told to follow was arbitrary and didn't form part of any inherent differences between natal males and females. 

However, socialization is considered much more important than personal instinct because society runs on predictable behaviour. If you break the rules of the master there must be consequences which is why gender variance of any type was traditionally met with such strong resistance. 

What we have done today is increasingly free people from the shackles of social rules which when not adhered to don't impede them from positively contributing to society. 

The fact that some people resist this freedom in others is entirely expected if we understand anything about human nature and its limitations. People are insecure almost by default and largely not into critical thinking.

The remaining work we have involves the natural selection which happens when people holding the old mindset begin to disappear naturally and are replaced by those who don't subscribe to the nonsensical aspects of our former orthodoxy.