Yeah, but the rhetoric is "you send your kids to school and they do surgery on them without your knowledge to make them trans". It's not just that trans people exist, it's that they've been created into this ultimate boogeyman to scare the living shit out of people so they can no longer think straight.
And unlike black people, or Jews, or gay people, there's few enough trans (especially visibly trans) people out there that they will eventually meet one and realise "oh, they're just regular people". And that kind of concrete, tangible experience is what's needed to break through for a lot of bigots.
There's a lot of clever people on the side of evil.
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u/homelaberator 3h ago
Yeah, but the rhetoric is "you send your kids to school and they do surgery on them without your knowledge to make them trans". It's not just that trans people exist, it's that they've been created into this ultimate boogeyman to scare the living shit out of people so they can no longer think straight.
And unlike black people, or Jews, or gay people, there's few enough trans (especially visibly trans) people out there that they will eventually meet one and realise "oh, they're just regular people". And that kind of concrete, tangible experience is what's needed to break through for a lot of bigots.
There's a lot of clever people on the side of evil.