In early November 1942, the Allied forces finally and permanently gained control of Libya and Egypt from the Axis powers following the Second Battle at El Alamein. Along with the November 8 Allied invasion of Algeria and Morocco in Operation Torch, Winston Churchill saw these successful campaigns as a turn in the momentum of World War II. In an address to the Lord Mayor’s Banquet at the Mansion House on November 10, Churchill famously observed, “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.”
I thought of these events in the context of several recent victories in the war against transgender ideology. As with World War II in November 1942, there’s still much work to do. But clearly the momentum has shifted toward sanity. Children, girls, and women are the principal beneficiaries.
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