We’re just 10 days in, but it’s already been a tough year for the transgender cultists.

First came the news on Monday that the fad isn’t as popular as we thought it was. As NBC News glumly put it, “Less than 0.1% of adolescents with private insurance in the United States are transgender or gender-diverse and are prescribed puberty blockers or gender-affirming hormones, according to the findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.”

Whoa. Less than one kid in a thousand? Could it be that gender mutilation isn’t the growth industry we were told it was? Or might it be that the leftists at JAMA Pediatrics, having felt the heat for their unconscionable sanction of this sickness, are cooking the books to make it seem like the rest of us are getting all worked up about nothing? Drumming up insensitive outrage about the tiniest sliver of the population? Shame on you cold-hearted heteronormative bullies — that sort of thing.

Get a load of this language from Landon Hughes, the study’s lead author and a fellow at Harvard’s School of Public Health: “It’s really important for the public to understand that not everyone is getting access to gender-affirming care when they go to the doctor. It’s not as ubiquitous as some may want us to believe, especially among youth.”

Got that? Calm down, you mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging rubes. We’re not lopping off as many children’s body parts as you think we are.

Here’s more from Hughes, in case his condescension wasn’t clear: “There’s not some massive wave of folks accessing care. It is certainly a minuscule group of people who are getting access to this care, and it’s certainly eaten up a lot of the public discourse in the recent political, legal climate.”

So, you see, all this talk of puberty blockers and such is really much ado about nothing.

Or so they’d have us believe. However, the sad truth is that these child-mutilation surgeries are very real.

How times have changed. After all, it seems like only yesterday that the cultists were celebrating their burgeoning numbers — and poking the rest of us in the chest lest we refrain from joining their celebration.

Are we now in the early stages of a Great Transgender Walk-Back? It’s hard to say, but the Democrats have grown increasingly squeamish about their support for the T in LGBT. Think about last year’s presidential election. Donald Trump repeatedly and effectively hammered home the injustice of allowing boys and men to compete in sports against girls and women. One of his most effective campaign ads was the one in which he used Kamala Harris’s own words against her when she was crowing about having fought for taxpayer-funded sex-change operations for illegal aliens in lockup.

Sixteen months ago, we heralded the beginning of the Great Transgender Sports Walk-Back. Might it be that the American people’s tolerance for the entirety of this grotesque and manufactured contagion is waning?

If the transgender movement is being walked back a bit, it received something of a shove yesterday when a federal judge blocked the Biden administration’s efforts to redefine sex within the Title IX code as “gender identity.” The Cardona v. Tennessee ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky effectively strikes down nationwide the noxious distinction that Biden’s meddlesome gender revolutionaries had set up.

What does this mean? Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti has some thoughts on the matter: “Another massive win for TN and the country!”

Calling the decision “a colossal win for women and girls,” Kristen Waggoner from the Alliance Defending Freedom spelled it out: “The Biden administration’s radical attempt to redefine sex not only tossed fairness, safety, and privacy for female students out the window, it also threatened free speech and parental rights. … We are thankful for the leadership of Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and other state attorneys general who challenged this blatant overreach alongside our courageous clients.”

Again, we’re only 10 days into the year. But things certainly appear to be starting off on the right track.