No I don't think they are resigned to that. The issue of female priests has been around for awhile, though this is a new take of it. Before allowing female priests was considered a way to stop the declining number of men entering the priesthood as woman are more likely to take a vow of celibacy.

literal people are scary, man, literal people scare me
out there trying to rid the world of its poetry while getting it wrong fundamentally down at the church of "look,it sez right here, see!" Ani Difranco