Siever argues that recent examples of gender-neutral parenting in the news and on social media may be contributing to “a small rise in acceptance”. However, in their opinion, it won’t become a mainstream trend anytime soon. “I hope it will become much more common, but at the current pace this is going to take decades, especially with right-wing politics and talking points about protecting children from so-called ‘gender ideology’ on the rise everywhere in the Western world.”