Anti-Trans Is Not Just That Conservatism Bad, We Should Reject It

Rightist enjoyment of anti-trans is one of the central ways that rightist enjoyment functions today. If you identify trans as this figure of the enemy, then all of a sudden you feel like, oh, I can get some certainty about my own gender identity if we can just eliminate these people that are trans. So getting rid of the physical manifestation of the thing makes its spectral manifestation even more powerful. It's ultimately self-defeating because it has to construct the enemy, but then it demands that the enemy be eliminated. And then the problem is that if you eliminate the enemy,then you lose the belonging, the sense of belonging that you, that the enemy was creating in the first