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14. The Reactionary Crusade Against Trans Rights Is an Assault on Democracy – and Some Thoughts on the Idea of a “National Divorce”

Is This Democracy

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Trans People Are the Perfect Target to Attack

It seems to me that it is so aggressive, partly because it's only been pretty recently that trans people have existed in society in a way that was not being mocked and made fun of and attacked. We still have the society that is very uncomfortable with anything that doesn't fall into this sort of black and white gender divide. And so because of that kind of deep and broad discomfort in American society, it's a perfect target.

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