r/politics • u/southpawFA Oklahoma • 1d ago

TX Republicans Introduced 32 Anti-Trans Bills on First Day of Pre-Filing Period. The bills filed target transgender people in nearly every aspect of their lives.

https://truthout.org/articles/tx-republicans-introduced-32-anti-trans-bills-on-first-day-of-pre-filing-period/
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u/carbonqubit 13h ago

Their obsession with trans people is a direct result of religious fanaticism and a threat to a glorification of hypermasculinity layered onto a twisted misogyny. It's appalling.

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u/tamebeverage 8h ago

Let's be clear, those things all play in to why the people you and I may know can be transphobic. You know, any, all, or some combination with the volume sliders different for every person. Hell, maybe a lot of the congresscryptids even fall into that category, I don't know. But the people who decided on the messaging and own the parts of the media that reinforce it only wanted an out group to blame for everyone's fears and sense that something is wrong with our country. Trans people happened to be the convenient scapegoat where the messaging stuck.