it’s really silly when it’s simplified like that, but yeah. Slavery and racism, women’s rights, and gay rights are kind of out of style now. Rallying against them doesn’t get the voter base they used to get, so they have to lean into a new scapegoat.

Black people just want to live their lives. Women just want to live their lives. Gay people just want to live their lives. Trans people, contrary to most people, still want to live their lives.

When it’s not cool to target transgender people anymore, they’ll move on to something else. That’s what they’ve always done.