A teenage girl reportedly brought video evidence to local police after she caught Republican Mayor of the Village of Butler in Ohio, Wesley Dingus, in her room sniffing underwear
I’m just gonna say from my perspective, this take is wrong.
I understand where you were trying to go with this, but I completely disagree that that is what republicans are thinking when they hate on trans people. Most republicans who are transphobic hate the individual trans people too, not just the community. It’s pretty apparent with how they treat individual trans people in public. Even cis people, if they look just slightly “too androgynous” (read not exactly what the bigot expects a cis person to look like), are targets for these people.
And that also doesn’t touch on why republicans paint trans people as pedophiles, when the biggest pedophile operations are within the religious and political elite. AFAIK, there is no correlation between transgenderism and pedophilia. There is a high correlation between religiosity and pedophilia though.
You may think the take is wrong, but it’s basically what Posobiec and them attempt to argue in “Unhumans”, a political ideology book that’s been lauded by Vance, Trump Jr, Carlson and so on. It is rather overtly what their more “intellectual” (debatable!) contingent paint as the ideological justification for their actions. What they describe there also explains what they’re “trying” to do with some of their other shenanigans, like the supreme courts overturning of women’s rights – or more specifically, why they wanted to push that down to the state level as part of their broader objectives.
That it gets implemented in a fear mongering way that attempts to rile up the uneducated common US idiot is a secondary ‘thing’ – as is the common US idiots take on it in the “They gonna fuck our kids/jobs!”. The ideology not matching the implementation isn’t a ‘new’ phenomenon, nor is it restricted to fascists – communism is an easy example on that front, where the ‘ideology’ rarely matches the implementation, even if you can ‘see’ elements of the ideology underpinning the movements justification for their actions.
I’m just gonna say from my perspective, this take is wrong.
I understand where you were trying to go with this, but I completely disagree that that is what republicans are thinking when they hate on trans people. Most republicans who are transphobic hate the individual trans people too, not just the community. It’s pretty apparent with how they treat individual trans people in public. Even cis people, if they look just slightly “too androgynous” (read not exactly what the bigot expects a cis person to look like), are targets for these people.
And that also doesn’t touch on why republicans paint trans people as pedophiles, when the biggest pedophile operations are within the religious and political elite. AFAIK, there is no correlation between transgenderism and pedophilia. There is a high correlation between religiosity and pedophilia though.
You may think the take is wrong, but it’s basically what Posobiec and them attempt to argue in “Unhumans”, a political ideology book that’s been lauded by Vance, Trump Jr, Carlson and so on. It is rather overtly what their more “intellectual” (debatable!) contingent paint as the ideological justification for their actions. What they describe there also explains what they’re “trying” to do with some of their other shenanigans, like the supreme courts overturning of women’s rights – or more specifically, why they wanted to push that down to the state level as part of their broader objectives.
That it gets implemented in a fear mongering way that attempts to rile up the uneducated common US idiot is a secondary ‘thing’ – as is the common US idiots take on it in the “They gonna fuck our kids/jobs!”. The ideology not matching the implementation isn’t a ‘new’ phenomenon, nor is it restricted to fascists – communism is an easy example on that front, where the ‘ideology’ rarely matches the implementation, even if you can ‘see’ elements of the ideology underpinning the movements justification for their actions.