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The fact that trans politics can be construed as anti-sex probably contributed to its enthusiastic acceptance by the LGBTQ+ movement, which may have imagined the heteronormative majority would embrace it for that reason. There is a split in the LGBTQ+ community over trans, but the entire movement, with all its factions, is political. The amount of energy pouring into politics, as the only route to meaning, cannot lead to anything but catastrophe. The anti-trans movement does not view trans as anti-sex, but as more deviant than gay, and the success of its attacks on trans have emboldened it to move on to attacks on the LGBTQ+ movement. Totally agree. I've generally identified, by default, with the Right because it was the place to attack the insufferably smug Leftists and to argue for free-speech/small-government. But the surging alt-right is showing some seriously dangerous qualities. The belief that child-molestation creates both child-molesters and homosexuality is now being enthusiastically taken up. Their pedophobia is blood-curdling. They are following the Left by making politics their religion (Christianity is subset to this) and, increasingly, Hitler is their superman. For the moment, this Jew- and fag-hating Right is probably going to destroy the Republicans at the ballot box. But there's a serious problem. The cohort driving this movement -- Nick Fuentes' groypers, white males under 30yo -- have every right to be bitter and hate-filled. Fairly predictable response to being trashed and spat on for decades. But it means every attempt to attack them, no matter how reasonable and from what position, will only strengthen them in their new-found resurgence. They quite like politics-as-religion now. Pretty ugly stuff. |