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!
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.