Similar to the Republican "evolution" on gay people that's happened within the last five or so years, I think if there are actually some landmark successes in trans rights, we'll see a lot more conservatives being like "Of course we don't mind trans people, please don't find out anything we've said earlier than last year about it, though." Just cynical lip service to attract some voters.
Unironically though, Caitlyn Jenner (also Blair White and similar) does not deserve any transphobia but she does deserve the wall.
attacking shitty trans people on any aspect of them being trans is still transphobic, regardless of if they're shitty
kinda blows my mind sometimes when i think about how many white women are vocally/outspoken conservative, as though the hardened core of the movement wouldn't Handmaid's Tale them all in a heartbeat if they could.
Cut to the scene in that one documentary where Lauren Southern is getting sexually harassed by Gavin McInnes, like gee I wonder if there's a global movement by women for women that seeks to address exactly that sort of thing.
I think it's a combination of:
- Most people generally not thinking through the implications of their political beliefs,
- A lot of those "beliefs" being more aesthetic/cultural choices than stuff they're deeply invested in,
- How easy it is to call for radical changes when the odds of those changes touching your life are minimal, and
- Some understanding that -- as a huge right-wing constituency -- really fucking them over would be difficult.
This is what moving the Overton Window looks like. All in a scant five years, too. Everyone says Trump was a disaster...but I don't agree. He was a wonderful gift that gave everyone a sense of urgency and we got 20 years of work done in 5. It's as if we went from Stonewall to legal gay marriage in a decade.
The idea that conservatives would be dancing to the left's tune with pronouns was preposterous when Trump ran, much less when he actually won...and yet here we are.
