I think this is true. I see a lot of scientific misinformation being presented as fact, by people who have no scientific background. They seem to be imbibing and then regurgitating standard talking points without understanding those talking points and without realizing that they are being misled. I think this is partly because our societal discourse tends, for some reason, to work along principles of soundbites: easy to ingest, not very meaningful. For example "Transwomen are women." That's easy. Most people do not realize it means nothing. Or, "Girl brain in a boy body." That makes no sense but people with a high school level of biology do not understand this. People fall for the "but a woman who had a hysterectomy is a woman so why can't a transwoman be a woman eleventy one" and, again, I think this is because it's easy to grasp this argument (even though the argument is fundamentally flawed). It is difficult to explain to the average voter that even though sex determination is indeed complex, that it is still true that there are two separate developmental pathways (male and female), and that it is possible to determine which pathway a particular person's body follows.

I know a number of parents of daughters, who (the parents) are completely on board with TWAW and I think the combination of the difficulty of explaining scientific reality, along with ideological loyalty to the idea that progressives always have your best interests at heart, is at work here.