Hard to believe. I thought those countries were liberal beyond compare.
They are more liberal, but most of them are less corrupted by ideology and hate. (The Scots are an exception.) If the evidence shows that they're screwing something up, they're typically not completely blind to see it. If you presented similar evidence to white liberals in the US, they'd come up with reasons why that evidence is indicative of white supremacy and transphobia and should be suppressed because they hate the people asking them to look at it. The intellectual merit of it would be irrelevant.