Today's anti-trans activism is about so much more than transgender people

[LostOne4Ever]

Today's anti-trans activism is about so much more than transgender people
The extreme anti-trans activism we see today is about much more than gender diversity. The transphobia is driven by a deep and irrational fear of the unknown, a fear political extremists are exploiting in order to gain power.
Jack Molay
August 12, 2024

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It may look as if the "debate" continues to be about "facts", given that anti-trans activists often refer to "science" when dismissing transgender identities. But the truth is that this has nothing to do with science or facts. This is all about feelings, and particularly about the fear of the unknown. They are not debating in order to learn. They are debating in order to win. They seek control.

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The fear of loss of social standing

It has been said that Hitler did not win in Germany because the middle class had become poor. He won because they feared that they would become poor and lose their social status. We see the same today, especially among those who are wired for caution and conservatism: They no longer trust the system, and their fear of chaos and poverty drives them into the arms of fascist charlatans.

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Trans people are seen as threatening the building block of the traditionalist narrative, the nuclear family. The mom plus pop plus 2.1 kids and a dog narrative requires a firm and unquestionable divide between the two "biological sexes".

Moreover, both right wing transphobes (fascists and religious fanatics) and left wing transphobes ("gender critical" TERFs) believe men are violent by nature. This violence requires a social structure that protect weak women from strong men, and the only ones who can give that protection are strong men. This is completely bizarre, I know, but this is how they think, and this is why it becomes hard to get real gender equality. Strong men are there to protect their property (women and children) against other violent men, and men who do not want to live up this stereotype cannot be real men. And if they want to be women, they must be mad.

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When I write this it seems like the Harris/Waltz campaign in the US is based on a strategy where the message is that it is the compassionate defenders of the weak who are the "normal" ones and the haters who are the "weird" ones. After all, being hopeful and glad is a natural human trait, so why not embrace it?

The right wing reactionaries seem to sense the trap. Over at Fox News they are spending a lot of time presenting compassionate men as feminized weaklings. Even female politicians who smile, laugh and hug are seen as dangerous. But this only confirms that they are misogynists who have lost their ability to love, and that the only thing that drives them is hate, fear and the need to dominate. And that is "weird".
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More at link:

https://www.crossdreamers.com/2024/08/todays-anti-trans-activism-is-about-so.html

[magicarpet]

1. Fear that white Krishtun hetrosexual preferential treatment will be liquidated or ,...

... jeopardized is what drives their fear and hatred. They have long enjoyed so many special advantages - they do not want those advantaged diluted or to allowed to disappear.

As society grows more tolerant and equal treatment becomes the norm in so many places they feel more and more threatened and the need to lash out.

White hetro krishtun males want to turn back the clock to the day they were head of the roost and king of the hill without having to prove themselves qualified or worthy. Just the fact that they are white, that they are khrishtun, and that they are alpha manly macho men are the only credentials needed to come out on top and to step to the front of the line. Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, gays, and trans can step to the rear at the back of the line.

Most hetro males want to adamantly retain the preferential treatment they have long enjoyed and do not want to see those advantages eroded one iota. With social progress involving tolerance of the others, white hetro males fear they are being marginalized and mistreated.

All of this current hatred by young White males is blow back to this reality that they feel their preferential treatment is now threatened and rapidly being dismantled. They are vehement proponents of grabbing your bootstraps... and meritocracy,... except when it comes to them,... they are not.

[TommyT139]

2. Elaborate?

What's with the intentional misspelling of "Christian"?

[magicarpet]

3. Christians are followers of Jesus Christ's teachings.'

These Khrishtuns are a perversion of real Christians so the misspelling reflects that reality.

They are not Christians - but only masquerading as being such - coming up pathetically short of the real thing in their actions, their words, their prayers, and their preachings.

A bastardized facsimile of the real thing.

[TommyT139]

6. Thanks for clarifying.

It's been common in my experience for some who think they are progressive to lump all Christians together as if we are all alike. That's not progressive - that's ignorant and only helps the theocratic fascists.

[IbogaProject]

4. Sexual repression breeds fascism

There is an old book by an early psychoanalist, "The Mass Psychology of Fascism", about the rise of that in Europe after WW1. The GOP brought several hundred thousand German and Nazi functionaries to rebuild the Republican party. The effects of this large and heavily funded conservative investment has destroyed the middle class in America. This stupid and dangerous panic about Gays and Trans citizens is part of this collective GOP psychosis.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Psychology_of_Fascism
(Yes I know Reich went crazy later on, but this book is very insightful)

[IbogaProject]

5. Trevor Noah really gets how ridiculous they are

Here is a bit from a comedy special about how absurd bathroom bans are.

This is not to minimize the risk this hysteria poses to Trans and Intersex people.