In 3 minutes, Montana will be debating and voting on the House floor a "right to bully" trans people.It will give students the right to use trans people's deadnames and misgender them openly.Follow along with me. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/oYDoRU8pYt— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) February 15, 2023
I think it's going to be one of the big election cycle culture war issues unfortunately. It's like 90% of what the right-wing psychos like libs of tik tok, Jordan Peterson, Matt Walsh, etc post about now. They have people convinced that liberals are giving toddlers gender reassignment surgery.
Why is the American right suddenly losing its shit over trans people? Why now?
No governing strategy, so scapegoating and punching down is a lot easier.
Makes sense. Fascism is incapable of actually solving problems, so all it can really do is make an ever-expanding list of minorities to kill.
I think it's going to be one of the big election cycle culture war issues unfortunately. It's like 90% of what the right-wing psychos like libs of tik tok, Jordan Peterson, Matt Walsh, etc post about now. They have people convinced that liberals are giving toddlers gender reassignment surgery.
In the purest terms: Because they can. They think it's funny.