Anti-trans school board candidates backed by Ron DeSantis get crushed in Florida

Indeed. I am an older Millennial, and I thought anti-youth sentiment was really quite severe when I was young. All the news articles criticizing us, various adults around me (fortunately not my own family) constantly making snide remarks, etc.

But what Gen Z and Gen Alpha are going through now is on a whole new level.

At least when we were attacked for fighting for gay marriage, that was a right that our nation had never recognized before. Humans are fearful animals and there is always going to be reluctance to change.

But gender-affirming surgery has been legal for something like a century, drag queens and crossdressing have been widespread since before I was born, etc. People are actively trying to take away rights that already existed as long as most of us can remember — seemingly simply because younger people have been taking greater advantage of those rights and so taking them away would maximally screw young people over.

The attacks on abortion and education fit right in. These are issues that will overwhelmingly affect Gen Z and Gen Alpha. Older* people already got to take advantage of these rights while they were young enough to use them, but now that they're finished with them, they want to pull the ladder up behind them.

* I just want to emphasize that this is absolutely nowhere close to universal. I know quite a lot of older people who are dedicated to their children and grandchildren. This is just a general trend — a trend unfortunately strong enough to sway major elections.