The short march of childhood gender dysphoria though the Family Court In pursuit of Marxist revolution, Antonio Gramsci declared the primacy of winning the battle of ideas: of altering the “common sense” of society and its institutions. The German communist Rudi Dutschke declared the necessity for a “long march through the institutions”, alluding to the 4000-mile trek Chinese communists undertook to secure refuge in Yan’an in preparation for ultimate victory. The American Marxist Herbert Marcuse assured Dutschke that his was the “only effective way”, deploring the situation in 1971 in which “the radical Left has no equal access to the…