The battle against gender ideology is a battle for truth and for sanity. And looking back, I realize National Review has been at this battle for a while; in earnest, almost a decade. And we couldn’t be at the front lines of that battle without the support of our readership, which is why we are asking you to consider donating as part of our ongoing webathon.

Back in 2014, we published the prophetic essay “Laverne Cox Is Not a Woman,” distinguishing the trans madness from other culture-war battles. Not enough took it seriously at the time. For many of us and our readers, our perspective changed over time as the phenomenon changed. Not so long ago, the “T” appended to LGB seemed like a straggler. Not all that consequential. T applied to a tiny handful of people, it seemed — all of them adults, and many of them desperately sad. Trans was a word identifying a broad range of ways they coped with their personal-identity issues. Some were hiding, some were acting out.

But then, almost overnight, private spaces for women were being redefined to include men who identified as women, otherwise known as men. Then women’s sports — even fighting sports — were made to include men. Gender ideology was suddenly invading the curriculum, and tween girls were suddenly identifying as trans, and it seemed to spread among them like a flu. And then we started to hear of the medical scandals at the U.K.’s Tavistock clinic, or of the rise of gender clinics, prescribing kids off-label puberty blockers in the United States.

Megyn Kelly was one of those whose views changed in light of these developments, and her powerful monologue, “Why I’m Done with ‘Preferred Pronouns,’” was republished here at NR.

We’ve had the path-breaking analysis and reporting from Madeleine Kearns, who was there to witness the NCAA crown “Lia Thomas” the top female swimmer. And we have the on-the-spot news and analysis from Caroline Downey, whose series on “The Detransitioners” is moving the debate forward again.

This is vital work, and National Review’s journalistic contribution is supporting the drive for legal reform across more than a dozen states to protect children from this malicious superstition, and the deranged “professionals” who would inflict permanent damage on our children. It’s not often that conservatives get the upper hand, but we have it now. Keep us in the fight.