Perhaps I’m just unnecessarily anxious, but I feel like the constant culture war nattering makes it be a thing.

For example, my parents are in their 80s. The struggles of trans people just aren’t relevant to them in any way. The chances they would ever interact with a trans person in any meaningful way are infinitesimal.

However, if the leader of the liberal party is on TV every day complaining about how a trans person might use a public toilet for whatever gender, it will make my parents believe that it’s a problem.

These politicians stoke the culture war to fire up and engage their base.

Locally we’ve had some conservative nutters complain about library books discussing sex and gender issues. It’s just another manufactured outrage.