When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender...
The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.