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Trans Rights and Gender Authoritarianism (w/ Gillian Branstetter)

ReImagining Liberty

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The Role of Gender in the Movement for Gay Rights

Transgender people need allies right now and a lot of people who ought to be their allies are either buying into the moral panic or at the very least just looking the other way. I think what's also really distressing is that this moral panic is about a broader movement towards authoritarianism and it's kind of a classic authoritarian or often fascist playbook move to begin with striking against minorities, particularly along gender things so can you talk a bit about the role that gender norms play in this movement more broadly? So many on the authoritarian right seem so obsessed with what is properly masculine what is properly feminism and those roles and they're so incensed by what they see as like boundary transgressions sure.

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