This was always the intention when fascists started manufacturing the whole “trans are pedos” (aka groomers) narrative — to strip their rights away. Trans are the testing ground for authoritarian take over; identical to 1930’s Germany.

The only way you can strip a specific, targeted sub-group of the populations rights away is by making that group of people an enemy; in recent history the only indefensible enemies have been pedos and terrorists (islamic only though, coz Christianity). They lost the red scare trope several decades ago.

Take note. They’ll expand these targeted attacks to all other “others” as soon as they get (or manufacture) the opportunity… It doesn’t matter that the average conservative politician or Christian evangelist is 100x more likely to be a pedo than the average trans person, because they have never, and will never, give a shit about kids.

Man, I’ve been saying pretty much exactly this for fucking YEARS.

People have looked at me funny for a while when I’ve said stuff like that. Lately, people have stopped looking at me funny and started taking the discussion seriously.

On one hand, I’m glad that it doesn’t feel like I’m screaming into the void anymore.

On the other hand… why is it so fucking impossible for humans to acknowledge and react to anything unless it’s staring them right in the goddamn face (conceptually-related sad climate change noises)?