The Onion

Outrageously disproportionate to the real issues

How often have I heard anti-trans rhetoric in the last few years? Why is it always used as a wedge issue to

• Privatize public institutions - schools, parks, health clinics, public transit

• Ramp up police enforcement and surveillance on the working class

• Crack down on union organizing and other labor movements (particularly teacher and nurse unions)

• Elevate "naturalist" rhetoric used to entrench gender bias (only boys can do X and only girls can do Y, but trans people are trying to cheat! Keep the genders divided!)

Hell, I even see it worm its way into subjects like climate change reform, with the old Alex Jones "They're turning the frogs gay!" rhetoric intended to deflect from the impact rising temperatures has on the ecology by convincing people there's a Homosexual Agenda behind their ecological problems.