Libs, walking straight into chud talking points and framing in a blissfully innocent attempt at "nuance" since...1650? Earlier? Fucked if I know they've always been this way.
The usual GC types are already making out-of-context clips.
Uphold TC69 thought, combat liberalism, We love and fight with our Trans Comrades!
I find it telling that whenever being trans is framed as a “fad” in this way, it’s always in a very narrow western/Christian context and it’s never mentioned that societies where crossing genders and/or embracing multiple genders is fairly common have always existed (like pre-colonial Philippines). It’s especially horrible when people who call themselves “scientists” present their cultural bias as fact without a second thought.
Even in Western European and Christian contexts, even in (generally bad) colonial contexts there are multiple cases of accepted Gender non-conforming communities, even with explicit recognition by the Catholic/Orthodox authorities. This crackdown is really a 19th-century High Colonial thing, though of course elements of it go back to the Reformation/Counterreformation.
A surprising example I often forget about is the Public Universal Friend, a Quaker evangelist who had a “resurrection” experience and spent the rest of their life as an openly non-binary traveling preacher in 18th century New England.