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Originally Posted by Yamer
What's the genesis of this recent, fully-throated resistance to queerness? It really seemed like we were moving in the right direction until about 2014 or 2015. I don't recall Trump being outwardly against these rights, but it sure feels like it was co-opted into the culture wars after he came into the political sphere.
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The real answer is that the worst dregs of right-wing idealogues leveraged older and less cosmopolitan people's natural discomfort and turned it into a frothy rage.
Equating queer persons with pedophilia has been a long-standing tactic of the grossest pundits, but it's seen significant traction in the last 7 years.
Public transgenderism, and in particular, a larger spectrum of transgenderism that doesn't equate gender identity with "passing", has been an exceptionally easy target for the hate-mongers.