these people hate children and want them to suffer. they target trans kids because they think can get away with it but they’ll destroy any child’s life if they believe it will serve some greater good www.yahoo.com/news/mom-tra...
They don’t hate kids, they’re just using a phenomenon that a lot of (most?) people don’t understand as a wedge issue to gain/keep power, and trans kids are the easiest to disingenuously demagogue.
I fled WV to transition and I know both sides
They hate liberals. They hate LGBTQ adults and kids.
They hate parents who may not even consider themselves liberal, but made the choice when a family member came or as trans to not reject that kid, but rather to love and accept them.
That hatred is toxic.
Substitute “greater good” for “political point” and this is 100% accurate. I don’t think a lot of these folks actually believe they are “saving the children.” The children are props in a proxy war and these people are willing to sacrifice them at any moment.
It's not belief in a greater good. It's using a distorted manipulation of half understood biblical nonsense to justify delight in cruelty used to gain dominance.
After 10+ years of teaching in public high schools I’ve found that far too many adults hate kids because of how they were abused by adults for exhibiting age-appropriate kid behaviors throughout their childhood. If a kid is being raised differently it calls into question their entire reality.
Hoping that this continues to get wider and wider attention, foremost b/c Norton deserves to keep her job (if still wanted) & her daughter deserves recompense for this bullshit.
But also b/c the way this was kicked off feels awfully shady and deserves formal investigation bsky.app/profile/bob5...
If they really believed what they preached they wouldn’t be so malicious. But the truth is they don’t actually think trans kids are being misled or corrupted or any of that bullshit hand-wringing, they think they’re ontologically evil and want to bully them into compliance like when they were kids.
Saw people in the comments claiming barring trans kids to from sports was “for the greater good,” because there are few trans kids. I guess promoting a society that is kind and inclusive doesn’t count as the greater good
I don’t think it’s so much they they hate children. I think it’s that the actually want anyone not exactly like them — white, cishet, and Christian— to die. Literally, wish them dead.
Not even a greater good! Transphobia is a moral panic to maintain and extend their grip on power by punishing an out group. Between school shooting and trans kids, the GOP is building a throne on the bodies of children.