You know the winds are shifting regarding transgender depravity when Malcom Gladwell — who has been a staff writer for the snooty liberal establishment bastion The New Yorker since 1996 — whimpers that he only went along with men in women’s sports because everyone else was doing it:

In a recent appearance on The Real Science of Sport podcast, the best-selling author admitted that he didn’t actually believe the pro-trans arguments being made at a 2022 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference panel he moderated — but he kept quiet anyway. …

Gladwell said he now believes there would be “near unanimity in the room that trans athletes have no place in the female category,” adding, “I don’t think there’s any question.”

It is admirable to admit your mistakes. But others had the character to affirm that transgenderism is a mistake from the beginning:

Riley Gaines was physically assaulted and barricaded in a classroom just for saying that males don’t belong in women’s sports. Female athletes were punished or kicked off their teams for objecting to biological males in their locker rooms. Gynecologists faced suspensions for refusing to treat males who identify as women. Journalists lost their social media platforms. Parents were investigated. Women who spoke up — even politely — were branded bigots, shunned by friends and labeled “TERFs.”

Only now that it is safe to side with sanity is Gladwell willing to do it.

At least he is to be thanked for serving as a weathervane and for reminding us that liberal elite opinionmakers are not to be taken seriously.