Large parts of the world are being propagandized more and more, and voting more and more conservative.
The US outright put russian assets in at the highest levels of government,
The Conservative Party of Canada is gaining power
The UK had Brexit, and didnt learn anything from that, and is moving more and more authoritarian.
Hungary, Germany, Spain, Latvia, Bulgaria, Belgium, Finland, Italy, Greece and Poland have had protected Neo-Nazi marches that I know of (in many cases, they stopped counter-protests or in one particular case, have prevented literal holocausts survivors from speaking).
Large portions of the middle east are doing the same thing as Russia, but they use Islam instead of Christianity.
China has been there for a while.
The only people who think the world is not turning to fascism (that I know), get that from fox news (or other Fascist websites, like X, Breitbart etc), which are well known propaganda mills.
Not my kid, but my best friends, and I babysit a lot.
Couple things you might not think about, or might overthink.
The biggest one for me was that I kept mis-gendering the kid for like a month, but I didnt realize that how I was reacting to doing so was worse than the misgendering itself.
Generally speaking, people understand that there is a transition period, you have thought of this person as a he or a her for their whole life, suddenly swapping pronouns isnt easy. If you get it wrong, thats ok, dont make a big production of it, just correct yourself, say sorry and try to do better.
I was making sure to really get across that I was sorry, and eventually I got told that it was stressing the kid out, because it was now a big thing that I got it wrong.
I learned, and they relaxed a lot when the next time I misgendered them, I just went “hes a good kid…sorry, shes a good kid” and that was that.