Tbh, my family is extremely conservative, but lately my mom has been doing her best to properly learn about LGBT+ people and how to correctly use pronouns and such. It's genuinely been such a wholesome experience because I came out as trans to her like five years ago and she's trying so hard to understand, but she's still so confused because google is a bitch and a half sometimes. Actually, two years ago on my birthday, she ended up apologizing profusely for not knowing how to properly refer to me in a gender neutral way in the card since she always called me by a gendered nickname for 20+ years, in the end I ended up giving her suggestions and the next year she used them! It was such a good feeling seeing her improve on something like that.

So, sometimes I feel like it's just overwhelming amounts of new information being thrown all at once and it's hard to unlearn things one has been taught for years on end. It's like a bad habit you're struggling to break. There's always bad actors - more often than not - but sometimes there's a few that are willing to learn.