>>43251531You are at least closer, so you may have an actual response refuting your point properly. The current discussions on transgenderism is largely driven by right wing organizations as a reaction to widespread acceptance of gay marriage. The legalization itself was not directly responsible for the change, but acceptance did only become widespread after that point. Right wing orgs found it was increasingly a losing topic for them, and anti-gay sentiments had been an effective way to drive voters for them until that point, so a new target of fear and hate was needed. Transgenderism was an obvious target, right wingers often fear and hate them for very similar reasons to their fear and hate of gays. Most notably, hate of both gays and trans people is HEAVILY focused on the male sex side of the equation, lesbians and trans men are largely ignored, sometimes pitied, the actual hate is reserved for men behaving like women, this obviously ties in easily with right wingers sexist attitudes. Once the new target was obvious, right wing orgs astroturfed this very site for years, deliberately fanning the flames on the topic, until a generation of young men cannot see a woman with a prominent jawline without thinking about whether or not she has a dick. The idea that it's left wingers pushing the topic is easily refuted by even the most cursory look at performative laws being proposed (such as the North Carolina bathroom law, don't say gay bill, and others) are overwhelmingly proposed by right wingers as an attack on an imaginary trans enemy, whole left wing lawmakers are CONSIDERABLY more passive on the topic, and any kind of look at media portrayals, where even after transgenderism has been a major topic of discussion for years, they're practically unheard of in popular fiction.
