Politicians are terrified of an electorate they think is far more authoritarian and angry and right wing than it actually is, because they are out of touch because the literal media - the thing that mediates between public and polity - is corrupted

It was already dodgy as hell legally-speaking that the UK banned puberty blockers for all trans kids while still quite rightly prescribing them to cis kids in Tanner 2 at those young ages. Terrible precedent was set to deny minority groups treatment based on characteristics other than capacity

Cooling things is famously easy in space!