For some politicians and those who are anti-LGBTQ+, it certainly is just hate. But here’s the thing, plenty of people can be perfectly kind and loving to transgender people and also acknowledge biology and men and women exist. I don’t need to believe the semantic twisted nonsense someone like One Brow spews to be kind or caring about another person. Trying to use such delusional nonsense doesn’t help the case that these people should be treated with the same kindness and respect of any other human being because they should. For instance in the legislative hearing yesterday when one of the state Senators said “There’s no way of knowing the difference of a man or woman” there’s a reason people scoff at that and think the person saying it is entirely insane and agenda driven themselves.
I think there's definitely room for debate on what it means to be transgender. I don't think a lot of the public even knows what it means. They believe it's some sort of mental disease or perversion.
However, I don't think it's debatable that the powers that are pushing this anti-trans agenda actually don't give a **** about women's sports. Just like with CRT, they've found a way to scare a lot of moderate folks into their camp. It's not a coincidence that the same group (Alliance Defending Freedom) that pushed the Masterpiece Cakeshop lawsuit are the ones pushing much of the anti-trans laws today.
As I've said, these folks aren't going to be satisfied with banning trans athletes. They want to dismantle ALL the gains that the LGBT community has made over the last several decades.
A Texas clinic for transgender adolescents closed last year amid pressure from the governor’s office, hospital officials said in phone recordings.
www.nytimes.com
From closing hospitals and clinics that provide care to pushing child abuse laws. Now, if you're a teacher, doctor, etc who suspects a child might be trans, you legally must report it or face punishment yourself. Is this really about "fairness" or "parental rights?" Why do a bunch of government bureaucrats know better than parents? Isn't that what Terry McAuliffe got in trouble for saying regarding public education?
What's funny is that it exempts the child abuse crime for parents of intersex children from providing them with gender affirming care, including surgeries. But wait, wouldn't that be child abuse So are we for parent rights or not? Why can parents decide when their child is intersex but not trans?
New research shows how YouTube's recommendation algorithm helps to radicalize people on the far right.
www.rollingstone.com
It's alarming to me that transphobia has become a way for the far right to attract new recruits. It's pretty obvious to me that this isn't at all about children, parent's rights, or women's sports. For Republicans and their far right allies, it's about using issues for political gain no matter how much it hurts minority populations.
They're not going to stop with trans sports bans. They're not going to stop with ending health care for trans people. They're already talking about ending Obergefell. They want their mythical culture of the 1950s back where women stayed in the kitchen, blacks knew their place, and white Christian men had all the privileges.