Military history is replete with famous battles that turned the tide in war. When a superior force overextended itself in the wrong place at the wrong time. These include the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, where 10,000 Athenians and one-thousand Greek allies surprise attacked a force of 15,000 Persians, causing them to flee. By the time they reached their ships, the Persians had lost 6,400 men and the Greeks less than 200. The defeat erased the Persian threat to Western Civilization for a decade.

So emboldened did this power make leftists, they crossed the line into madness: That men can be women.

Then there was Napoleon’s unwise invasion of Russia in 1812. His army managed to victoriously march and fight its way into Moscow, but the Russians’ harassing retreat and burning of the capital left the soldiers stranded and underfed. Their journey home in the Russian winter plus the tactical attacks on them starved, froze, and routed the French, permanently diminishing Bonaparte. (READ MORE from Lou Aguilar: When Rightist Eyes Are Smiling)

The greatest modern example of a war turnaround occurred 82 years ago at the fatefully named Battle of Midway (June 3-6, 1942). Four Japanese aircraft carriers sailed on Midway Island, their Zeroes swatting American fighter planes from the island and shooting down two waves of unprotected torpedo bombers from the U.S. carriers, Hornet and Enterprise. By the hand of God, a third bomber wave caught the Zeroes on deck refueling and rearming, and set three carriers ablaze, eventually the fourth. The Japanese military never recovered, and from then on, the Americans took the offensive in World War II.

Even absent flaming ships and frozen men, your keen Culture War correspondent can report that the tide has turned there as well. I’ve written for some time that the “transgender” agenda was “a Rainbow Bridge too far” for the Left. And by pushing it, for the first time ever, its minions are now in retreat.

For a while they had managed to warp reality and bend normalcy with other lunatic ideas: That killing unborn babies — and in some cases born ones — was a reproductive right. That same-sex marriage was equivalent to a husband and wife. That women were physically equal to men. That current anti-white racism can compensate for past anti-black racism. That “defunding the police” would decrease crime. That removing border obstacles could control immigration.

All these canards, promoted by academia and mainstream media, the populace swallowed. So emboldened did this power make leftists, they crossed the line into madness: That men can be women, then become pregnant and breastfeed young victims. That their transformation should begin in children, ahead of their surgical butchery to create Frankensteinian nightmares, only unlike Mary Shelley’s monster, with nonfunctional external body parts.

And if transgender adherents chose to spare themselves such a mutational horror, merely stating they were the opposite sex made them so. Thus, at the Left’s insistence, mediocre male athletes could crush champion sportswomen, men could gape at naked girls in female locker rooms, and “transgender” prisoners could rape and somehow impregnate women inmates. While previously unheard of terms like “misgendering” and “deadnaming” became actual hate crimes.

For too long, the progressive freaks got away with it, secure in their unceasing cultural victories and power. Their social media hegemony — Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, others — canceled any objector or mocker merely for using the “wrong” pronoun. Just two years ago, Twitter suspended The Babylon Bee for naming Biden’s most absurd official (out of many choices), “Admiral” Rachel Levine, the magazine’s Man of the Year.

That arrogant act started the counteroffensive which today has the Left on the run. Last year, an outraged Elon Musk bought Twitter and promptly restored the The Babylon Bee account. Last year, the Bee named the ridiculous female-impersonator Dylan Mulvaney its 2023 Man of the Year. And this time there wasn’t a damn thing the progressive castrati could do about it, except watch their empire crumble, beginning with the once popular, now flopping Mulvaney-celebrating beer, Bud Lite. (READ MORE: Will Men Make a 1980s-Style Comeback?)

Last week, the anti-transactivist bombs just kept exploding like the Japanese carriers at Midway. In Florida, a court upheld Governor DeSantis’ Parental Rights in Education Act, which “prohibits classroom instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity in K–3 classrooms.” In Kansas, a judge denied the state’s Department of Revenue from allowing “transgender” persons to change their sex classification on their Kansas-issued identification.

But the biggest blast took place across the Pond in the socialist-sinking United Kingdom. Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) just stopped prescribing puberty blockers for children. For the left-compromised ministry to basically acknowledge the irreparable damage these treatments can do to kids should start a chain reaction of sanity around the world. Even the usually reserved Times of London called the practice “quack medicine,” urging that it be “reined in entirely.”

Nonetheless, terminally woke British territorial states Scotland and Wales stand by the quackery. The Welsh government hopes “to make it easier to ‘change gender’ in Wales.” While the Scottish government “wants to speed up and simplify the existing process by which people can obtain a ‘gender recognition’ certificate.'” Outspoken actor and Reclaim Party leader Laurence Fox had a brilliant thought about what the UK can do with the two countries. “At this time it might be a good idea to just give Wales and Scotland back,” he posted on X.