Troy wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 10:01 pm
The boogey man for Florida, Texas, North Carolina and other red states right now are trans people and cross dressers.
I've heard this, and I think it's true, but not the full picture. The same as how AR-15s and white supremacy is the boogey man for left leaning states. Both sides lean into current events to spin them however they need to win votes and public support.
Trans people have definitely been a target, but I don't think it's transadults. They've been around forever, but the mainstream has never really cared previously. (Although, there are ALWAYS people who react poorly to anything different.) It's the insistence upon pushing the neopronouns (which even most LGBQT+ people think are bullshit), the use of other bathrooms, the forcing folks to accept the person as the other sex (like in women's sports or awards for women), the pushing of drugs and surgeries on kids (which even a lot of the trans community has spoken out against), trying to get pedos accepted as MAPs, telling people who won't date a transperson that they're bigots (Image someone telling you that you have to be attracted to them.), teachers pushing gender identity in classrooms, and so on. Hell, this stuff has even turned a large percentage of LGB (without the QT+) and feminists against the trans movement because they feel they're being used and/or having their movements taken over for that purpose rather than their original purpose.
Simply put: If adults continued to do whatever they want to do without forcing others to play along and didn't push it on kids (like the trans toddlers and whatnot), this wouldn't be the boogeyman for the right. They'd be pushing something else.
I've started to try and take more stuff with a grain of salt when it comes to what I hear from each side about the other. Both sides create their talking points to make their base feel superior and scared at the same time. The truth is never what they say.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”