The radical right is using trans people as a way to whip up their base. We all know this, so this post isn't about that. It's about the way the right pretends to care about trans kids, and other kids, as an excuse.
Most of them don't know any trans kids. Hell, most of them don't know trans adults. (They will often claim they have a "best friend" who is trans, but you can be sure that if you spoke to the trans person -- assuming that trans person isn't invented entirely -- they would frown and say, "Now who is that again?")
They don't care about trans kids, trans people, trans athletes, or for that matter women's athletics in general. They care about having an excuse to hate. That's all they want. That's their entire motive.
They join churches that encourage them to hate. They follow blogs that encourage them to hate. They watch Fox News, which whips their hatred into a frenzy. They use violent, hateful, bigoted language. They vote for MAGA politicians, whose entire platform is aimed at creating hatred and bigotry.
And then they claim they just want to "protect" trans kids -- and trans adults -- who after all can't possibly know what they need. No, only this transphobic stranger who has never even met you knows what you need.
One of the weirdest tenets of mainstream transphobic thought is how the genteel transphobe believes they're more concerned about trans people's health than trans people themselves are.
— Evan Urquhart (@evanurquhart.bsky.social) May 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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