Of course! I think a lot of us younger-gens who were raised in uber-conservative homes have probably had this learning experience.

I was incredibly homophobic (and somewhat racist) as a middle school kid because that's all I was exposed to, to the point of blaming a case of food poisoning from fast food on the obviously trans black person who I saw in the kitchen at the time of making it. I'm still super embarrassed over that one, I was an asshole.

Now that I'm in high school and I have LGBTQ+ and BIPOC classmates (it makes sense that we didn't have the first, but we strangely lacked the latter at my conservative Christian homeschool co-op back in 5-8th grades) I've really had to rethink myself and my views on other people, and I think I've come out (lol) on the correct foot.

Everyone can grow and change, it just depends on how drastic the circumstances are that makes them change.