Republicans... attacks on LGBTQ+ people because they have no clue how to govern

[Jessica_Rose]

Republicans are pushing culture war attacks on LGBTQ+ people because they have no clue how to govern

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/republicans-are-pushing-culture-war-attacks-on-lgbtq-people-because-they-have-no-clue-how-to-govern/ar-AA1zrCnn?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=0f2e7cbbc18d4f2d863e5b6d262debb8&ei=91 🔗 [Link: msn.com/en-​us/news/opinion/republicans-​are-​pushing-​culture-​war-​attacks-​on-​lgbtq-​people-​because-​they-​have-​no-​clue-​how-​to-​govern/ar-​AA1zrCnn/]

Opinion by Cody Hays (20 Feb 2025)

... The Republican Party, once the party of tax cuts and deregulation, has shifted much of its energy toward defining the boundaries of gender. Donald Trump's latest executive order restricting trans rights... is just the latest step in a relentless, well-funded effort to make trans identity the political fight of the decade.

This is not because America has become a trans nation. According to the Williams Institute at UCLA, approximately 1.6 million people (ages 13 and older) identify as transgender in the United States—that's 0.6% of the population. Nor is it because trans people pose a new, emergent threat. A 2011 poll by Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) found that 91% of Americans were already aware of the term "transgender," and 89% believed trans people should have equal rights.

So here's where we land: This is not just an attack on trans rights. It is a dress rehearsal for a broader expansion of state power over personal identity.

We should ask ourselves: What happens when this political strategy runs out of trans people to attack? Who becomes the next target? And if the state is allowed to dictate who is legally real, what happens when it turns that power toward you?

The battle over trans rights is not really about trans people. It is about who gets to define reality—and whose existence is up for debate.

Because once a government starts governing through erasure, it rarely stops with just one group.

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[KathyLauren]

This is not just an attack on trans rights. It is a dress rehearsal for a broader expansion of state power over personal identity.

Very true.  In 1930s Germany, they started with trans people, but that was only the beginning.  Then they moved on to gays, Roma/Gypsies, and Jews.  The current administration is working from the same playbook.  They might do Muslims before Jews, but the progression will be the same.

[Lori Dee]

I just watched the movie "2073" last night. The signs have been right in front of us all along.

[Sephirah]

We should ask ourselves: What happens when this political strategy runs out of trans people to attack? Who becomes the next target? And if the state is allowed to dictate who is legally real, what happens when it turns that power toward you?

This is important. Populism only works when you give people someone to hate. Someone to blame for how bad your life is. When you run out of minorities to blame and hate, and you're still in the same place... what happens then? Then you vote Democrat... unless they've been drummed out of business by this frothing, moronic hatred.