GCs fashioned the 'we must protect women' tactic as a response to their hatred of trans people. It turns out that you can lie and spit as much as you want from atop the emotional soapbox that we must 'protect women.'
But the christian right has watched the GC's success using that strategy to reach a much wider audience and mainstream support, and they are striking while the iron is hot.
The entire 'groomer' strategy to turn more Americans against LGBT people, is an offshoot of this. Wherever 'protect women' works, 'protect children' works even better. Your average, minimally informed Americans are willing to believe the most delusional, insane bullshit if people tack on 'children are in danger,' no matter how spurious the claim.
See: the satanic panic of the 80's and early 90's.
But they're not stopping there. We are beginning to see the edges of a christian dominionist state - pushing LGBTQ+ people back into the closet, banning pornography, banning books that don't fit their strict dominionist worldview, etc etc. A christian dominionist state envisioned by the christian right, hand in hand with gender critical activists who are willing to throw their own liberation and freedom under the bus, as long as trans people suffer in the process.
There is a long history of these very things being used to propel enough of a population into madness, for authoritarians to take control. They capture pieces, bit by bit, under the cover of spurious fear-mongering claims just like these, until they are entrenched. When that happens there are no brakes. No safe, peaceful way to stop that train. The warning signs were years ago.
We are in it now, and they are forming their vision of a future.
A bible in one hand. A bloody American flag in the other.
want to divide people against us, divide us against ourselves, divide the working class against itself. Okay. We beat division with solidarity. We beat fascism with socialism. As necessary, we meet force with force, and that is how we beat these fuckers. That's the only way.
and thermite and explosives and concentrated power of will and psyops and trans porn





