I have a much more cynical outlook on this.
Like they had a perfectly good, if awful, wedge issue and dogwhistle and.they went full 1982 on LGBTQ as a whole. That drifted into attacks on trans kids - pushing bullshit about surgeries and whatnot - and they went straight into calling CPS on them and that's when the average Joe started going "Wait, what?" because siccing the state on the parents of trans kids, taking them away from their parents starts worrying them.Īnd then they went all "DON'T SAY GAY", you've got one state talking about banning HRT for anyone under twenty five, gay bashing has gone full-throated. The average Joe thinks it's about fairness, even if he's not big into women's sports, and the bigots are like "Fuck yeah".Įxcept.they couldn't fucking help themselves. Your average Joe is inclined to fairness, doesn't know shit about what HRT does to stuff like muscle mass, and certainly doesn't know how few trans athletes there are (or that the NCAA has had trans athletes for two decades now, and the world hasn't ended nor do trans athletes hold all the records or anything), so it's easy to basically dogwhistle. My only consolation is the GOP literally couldn't hold their shit together.
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