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The real reason trans women are public enemy number 1 to the Trump administration. [1]

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Date: 2025-02-09

As the beginning of the Trump administration has unfolded one thing has become extremely clear. The targeted attacks on transgender people that were prevalent during the campaign weren't just noise trying to peel off bigoted voters who find trans folks icky, but were, in fact, statements of intent that us trans folks were going to be public enemy number one in the new administration.

Us trans people knew this would happen, and have been warning people since at least Gamer Gate back in 2016 that the tidal wave of hatred for us presaged an attack on all women and all minorities. And now here it is in 2025 where our ability to do something so simple as take a piss when out in public is a risk laden affair.

Aside from the personal foibles of Elon Musk and his hangups about trans people (women especially) the right has a very simple reason for targeting trans folks, again, trans women especially.

Remember all those stories about how Grindr crashes during the GOP convention? GOP men want dick. But they hate that they want it, and take that self hatred out on queer society. GOP men want trans women, but they don't want trans women to be whole people with agency, they want trans women to be available as holes, as toys, and as objects, and they want trans women to have no choice other than to be holes and objects for their lusts. This is why they're going hard after things like 'DEI' where they're going to charge any company who "practices DEI policies". They can just point to a trans person working at a company and say "you did a DEI, fire it now" (you know they'd say 'it') and get the company to comply. They want to force trans folks into having no ability to have a legitimate job or career, so that we have no choice other than to enter sex work. This is a precursor and a test to try and work towards shoving the rest of women (and eventually any gay or effeminate men) out of the workforce and out of public life so that all of us have no choice other than to serve and be available for mediocre conservative men to use. They're furious that women have a choice not to sleep with them and trans women are the tip of the spear to take that choice away. Mix that in with the self loathing from their 'unnatural desires' towards wanting, as I said earlier, dick (I can't figure out a way to be less crude with that) and it makes trans women are perfect target for the new regime.

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