Transphobia's main drivers are always fundamentalist campaign groups utilizing reactionaries in journalism and academia. The latter feel threatened by their boomer brains not being able to keep up with the progressives any longer, who then gladly latch on to the fundie campaigns as they are the only milieu that will listen to them. The fundies then use these intellectuals and pundits like Jordan Peterson, Abigail Shrier, Kathleen Stock, Alice Schwarzer or Alexander Korte as their public face to lend their insane demands an air of secular rationality. You can observe that anywhere in the imperial core, the US just happens to be home to some of the biggest and most well-funded anti-LGBT and anti-feminist campaigners and has a vast network of multipliers thanks to the world's biggest PR ecosystem of cryptofash fundraisers, megachurches preaching reactionary ideology, astroturfed online communities, rightwing think tanks and the accompanying media outlets. They have the entire consent manufacturing apparatus of the GOP behind them.
So the purely elitist project of transphobia has an easier time actually reaching the masses in the US than in materially comparable regions like Canada, the UK or in continental western Europe, simply because Amerikans are the most propagandized people on Earth. Of course they show more people falling for an artificial movement like this, as was also the case with the Tea Party etc. Without a sufficient amount of propaganda exposure, most people may be unaware of and indifferent to trans issues and not know how to deal with us respectfully, but they are usually not actively resentful, they're just uninformed. You have to misinform them to hate us. Just as you actively have to misinform people to create the culture of homophobia that was slowly eroding before the recent reactionary backlash. People do not feel this resentful naturally, they are made to feel like it. They are groomed.
Of course, transphobes do the usual right wing trick and completely invert this reality by inventing a powerful trans lobby that wants to make children unnaturaly tolerant of LGBT people, when in reality the normal reaction of children when they learn there's trans people or gays or w/e is to just shrug and go on with their lives.
Transphobia's main drivers are always fundamentalist campaign groups utilizing reactionaries in journalism and academia. The latter feel threatened by their boomer brains not being able to keep up with the progressives any longer, who then gladly latch on to the fundie campaigns as they are the only milieu that will listen to them. The fundies then use these intellectuals and pundits like Jordan Peterson, Abigail Shrier, Kathleen Stock, Alice Schwarzer or Alexander Korte as their public face to lend their insane demands an air of secular rationality. You can observe that anywhere in the imperial core, the US just happens to be home to some of the biggest and most well-funded anti-LGBT and anti-feminist campaigners and has a vast network of multipliers thanks to the world's biggest PR ecosystem of cryptofash fundraisers, megachurches preaching reactionary ideology, astroturfed online communities, rightwing think tanks and the accompanying media outlets. They have the entire consent manufacturing apparatus of the GOP behind them.
So the purely elitist project of transphobia has an easier time actually reaching the masses in the US than in materially comparable regions like Canada, the UK or in continental western Europe, simply because Amerikans are the most propagandized people on Earth. Of course they show more people falling for an artificial movement like this, as was also the case with the Tea Party etc. Without a sufficient amount of propaganda exposure, most people may be unaware of and indifferent to trans issues and not know how to deal with us respectfully, but they are usually not actively resentful, they're just uninformed. You have to misinform them to hate us. Just as you actively have to misinform people to create the culture of homophobia that was slowly eroding before the recent reactionary backlash. People do not feel this resentful naturally, they are made to feel like it. They are groomed.
Of course, transphobes do the usual right wing trick and completely invert this reality by inventing a powerful trans lobby that wants to make children unnaturaly tolerant of LGBT people, when in reality the normal reaction of children when they learn there's trans people or gays or w/e is to just shrug and go on with their lives.
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