Michael Knowles is openly calling for genocide against trans people at CPAC. “Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely.”pic.twitter.com/uW6pAw02vI
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) March 4, 2023
Here’s the thing: trannies and specifically the tranny agenda to indoctrinate and mutilate children is a huge, horrible problem.
However, it is a totally manufactured problem that just totally appeared out of nowhere and then became the most important thing to both left and right.
This discussion is interfering with the ability to discuss other things – things that should, in a normal universe, be much more pressing.
Instead, these trannies and their agenda to molest and mutilate children is the only thing anyone ever talks about.
There was a joke about the suspected Chinese spy balloon’s preferred pronouns; claims that Democrats believe there are “millions” of genders and a menacing call for “transgenderism” to be “eradicated”.
From the main stage of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), far-right activists, members of Congress and the former president of the United States waged an aggressive assault on transgender rights last week, raising the issue in speeches and unrelated panel discussions, often under the guise of protecting children.
Headlining the conference on Saturday, Donald Trump drew some of the wildest applause of his more than 90-minute address when he pledged to stop the “chemical castration and sexual mutilization [sic]” of children if re-elected in 2024 while endorsing a national ban on transgender medical treatment for young people.
A day earlier, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, one of Trump’s staunchest allies, rallied attendees with a speech devoted to the issue, unveiling her plan to reintroduce a bill that would criminalize doctors for providing gender-affirming care to a minor.
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Much of the anti-trans discourse was aimed at liberals, who, according to the Republican senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, believe children “should be able to change their gender at recess” and “hyperventilate on their yoga mats if you use the wrong pronoun”. The remarks elicited peals of laughter from the audience.
Advocates say the vitriolic rhetoric on display at CPAC is reflective of the increasingly hostile movement among conservatives that seeks to regulate the lives of transgender Americans and marginalize vulnerable young people.
“People like Marjorie Taylor Greene will not be satisfied until every LGBTQ person is forced into the shadows,” said Geoff Wetrosky, campaign director for the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group. He added: “There’s really no legislative purpose other than discrimination in these bills.”
In state legislatures across the country, Republican lawmakers are pursuing a barrage of new restrictions related to transgender youth’s medical care, sports participation and bathroom use.
So far this year, anti-trans legislation has been proposed in 39 states, including 112 measures that focus on medical care restriction and 82 that pertain to education-related issues, according to the website Track Trans Legislation.
Last week, the Republican governor of Tennessee signed into law a bill prohibiting gender-affirming care for minors as well as one imposing new limits on drag performances, which have become a target for Republicans. Mississippi also enacted a ban on treatment for transgender youth while Republican state lawmakers in Kentucky advanced a similar measure, following a charged debate over a separate proposal allowing teachers to refuse to use students’ preferred pronouns.
Until recently, most legislation banning transgender healthcare was aimed at minors, but Republicans are increasingly pushing proposals that would limit treatment for adults.
Health experts and LGBTQ advocates say many of these anti-trans bills being pushed in state legislatures are not rooted in science – or reality.
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Increasingly, Republican politicians and party leaders see the issue of trans rights as a way to rile their base. It’s a strategy that seeks to capitalize on the conservative “parental rights” movement, which emerged in opposition to pandemic-era school polices requiring remote-learning and mask-wearing but quickly shifted to target classroom instruction related to race, sexual orientation and gender identity as well as transgender students’ bathroom use and sports participation.
Again – we can’t stop talking about it, because it’s happening – they are doing this to our kids, on an industrial scale.
That said: it is a distraction nonetheless. The fact that it is real does not mean it was not put out there as a distraction. It is designed to completely invade and conquer the public discourse, so there is no other topic of discussion. If Democrats lose on this – and it doesn’t look like they ever will, but if they ever did – it wouldn’t matter to them as every other agenda of theirs will have been pushed through while Republicans were begging them not to rape and chop-up little kids.