Fifteen years ago trans rights was barely a topic at all. The Christian Right’s adoption of it as a suddenly important social issue (after losing the gay marriage debate) was a cynical and deliberate piece of political manipulation, based on careful research into what topics various factions of liberals were divided on.
They realized that there was a big enough subset of feminists that could be persuaded that trans rights were an attack on feminism, to be able to turn them against mainstream liberal thought and thus get their votes, and all they had to do was destroy the lives of a few hundred thousand people who they’d previously never given a second thought to.
It’s also a play by play of what the Christian right did in the 60s/70s on abortion. Went from being a non-issue for most people to people firebombing abortion clinics within like a decade or two.
Fifteen years ago trans rights was barely a topic at all. The Christian Right’s adoption of it as a suddenly important social issue (after losing the gay marriage debate) was a cynical and deliberate piece of political manipulation, based on careful research into what topics various factions of liberals were divided on.
They realized that there was a big enough subset of feminists that could be persuaded that trans rights were an attack on feminism, to be able to turn them against mainstream liberal thought and thus get their votes, and all they had to do was destroy the lives of a few hundred thousand people who they’d previously never given a second thought to.
Worst of all, it seems to have worked.
It’s also a play by play of what the Christian right did in the 60s/70s on abortion. Went from being a non-issue for most people to people firebombing abortion clinics within like a decade or two.