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"The Crime Is Being Trans": Montana House Passes Indecent Exposure Bill Applying Only To Trans People
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I just want to echo my apologies and sympathies to the trans community. I'll never understand why you've been chosen as the target for the hate factories that are radicalising people. I also don't understand how people can allow themselves to see something entirely natural as something unnatural. But, I think of your dilemma regularly and would like to be more of an ally.
Because hating black people became a losing strategy, so they switched to hating gays. But hating gays became a losing strategy, so they switched to trans people. If you look at what the extremists say about trans people, you'll find the exact same things being about gay people before them, and black people before them.
The one comforting fact about that is that each of those groups are smaller than the one previous: there are more Black Americans than gay Americans, and there are more gay Americans than trans Americans. As each group gains wider cultural acceptance, the fascists have to target smaller and smaller groups to keep the hate that unites them going.
Eventually we'll see this same bigotry directed towards left-handed Thursday sock-knitters.