I was born in the early 90’s, and have known about trans people for as long as I can remember. Why, all of a sudden, are trans people/ the trans community so important in American politics?
I don’t understand why this community is NOW perceived as some battleground for political stances?
Please don’t take me the wrong way… But I’d like someone to explain to me the nuances of this because to me it just seems like a nonsensical distraction from actually important issues. Not to say trans rights are not important, but it just seems like this attack has sprouted out of nowhere?
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Homophobia became socially untenable as a tool for social control.
The right wing uses transphobia as a tool to vilify and abuse any woman who does not conform to traditional beauty standards.
Woman with a shaved head? Abuse them in the bathroom cause they must be trans. Woman with a strong jawline, abuse them because they must be trans. Not pretty enough? Abuse em.
This is why you don’t hear anything from the media about forcing transgender men to use the bathroom of birth corresponding sex. And you generally don’t hear anything about transgender men at all.
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