This certainly sounds like an opinion piece, but the New York Times has filed it under “Politics.” The thesis? Now that the “religious right” doesn’t have same-sex marriage against which to energize the base, it has decided to target transgender rights. (Remember that President Barack Obama opposed same-sex marriage until he didn’t anymore and lit up the White House like a rainbow to celebrate it, and in a 2008 debate against Sarah Palin, Joe Biden said, “Barack Obama nor I support redefining … what constitutes marriage. We do not support that.”)
But that’s all been memory-holed. Now Biden is president and makes a special occasion of Transgender Day of Visibility each year. The transgender community thinks it’s being “erased” while shouting down anyone who transitioned and regrets it.
Anyway, the campaign against “transgender rights,” like the right of a minor to have a double mastectomy, has “stunned” political leaders.
Defeated on same-sex marriage, the religious right went searching for an issue that would re-energize supporters and donors.
Now, the pace of the campaign against transgender rights has stunned political leaders across the spectrum. https://t.co/TnBF52b1aj
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 16, 2023
The Times reports:
Nadine Smith, the executive director of Equality Florida, a group that fights discrimination against L.G.B.T.Q. people, said there was a direct line from the right’s focus on transgender children to other issues it has seized on in the name of “parents’ rights” — such as banning books and curriculums that teach about racism.
“In many ways, the trans sports ban was the test balloon in terms of how they can frame these things,” she said. “Once they opened that parents’ rights frame, they began to use it everywhere.”
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The focus on perceived threats to impressionable children has a long history in American sexual politics. It has its roots in the “Save Our Children” campaign championed in 1977 by Anita Bryant, the singer known for her orange juice commercials, to repeal a local ordinance in Miami-Dade County that prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation, a historic setback for the modern gay rights movements.
The initial efforts by the conservative movement to deploy transgender issues did not go well. In 2016, North Carolina legislators voted to bar transgender people from using the bathroom of their preference. It created a backlash so harsh — from corporations, sports teams and even Bruce Springsteen — that lawmakers eventually rescinded the bill.
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First, congratulations on fitting in the Right “seizing” on the issue. And second, as this editor always says, the Left has made the “parents’ rights movement” into its new bogeyman. They really want to drive a wedge between kids and their parents, and public schools are the venue in which to do it.
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— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) April 16, 2023
A decade ago, on May 11, 2013, I noted that the NYT was gearing up to make transgenderism the Next Big Thing after gay marriage upon reading an insane NYT article about how awful it was that ex-man Fallon Fox wasn't allowed to beat up women for money:https://t.co/CBUxwaiGew pic.twitter.com/nUYshsVpKm
— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) April 16, 2023
Tell us what the next thing is going to be after trans.
— Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) April 17, 2023
You had to ask, didn’t you:
People who identify as Adult Babies / Diaper Lovers face constant false accusations of pedophilia.
They've been fired and even legally separated from their children for what experts call harmless interests.
Nevertheless, the community continues to grow.https://t.co/SCe0RQLGPd
— The Stranger 🗞 (@TheStranger) March 31, 2023
It’s not that you’re pushing degeneracy on children and decent Americans in general, it’s that we “went searching” for an issue.
I hope I live long enough to see the NYT go completely under.
— FunkyPox (@corrcomm) April 16, 2023
This is without a doubt the worst, most disingenuous piece of journalism I have ever encountered. I feel compelled to call it pure evil.
— Kevin Ryan (@The_Kevin_Ryan) April 17, 2023
the gall of you motherfuckers
— soul khan (@soulkhan) April 16, 2023
This is literally your fault
— Lyra, Esq., is NOT DAREDEVIL (@PinkRangerLB) April 16, 2023
There is not one right that a “transgender” person lacks.
(Quotes necessary, since being “trans” isn’t anything, really, beyond a LARP).
— theWOKEHOLICS (@theWokeholics) April 16, 2023
Only because you went after our children.
— Monika (@MonikaMusing) April 17, 2023
How dare the “religious right” oppose things like girls being sexually assaulted in high school bathrooms, female inmates sexually assaulted in prisons, or women pushed out of women’s sports by males in womanface. Oh and it’s just the “religious right,” apparently. https://t.co/7aeHGZk0Qd
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 16, 2023
Yes, NYT — we totally “went searching for an issue.”
Said “issue” has been actively grooming kids at school and online, demanding unfettered access to women’s spaces and women’s bodies, and seeding media with propaganda. But sure: we had to go “searching.” pic.twitter.com/mWc7KvozHF
— Abigail Prescott (@RaisingCamelot) April 17, 2023
The “religious right” is akin to “ultra MAGA.” It’s a way to demean the people the NYT opposes and deflect from the heinous agenda they support while purporting to be “journalists.” That agenda utilizes minors and others with mental struggles to perpetuate societal chaos.
— Cannon (@CannonTexAg) April 17, 2023
The Left is trying to make the case there were several issues in play at once and we lost one so moved to another. This is 100% false
We went from "love is love" to gay marriage to drag queen story hour to Lia Thomas in a heartbeat
— BTSOM 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 (@msrbbr) April 17, 2023
“They just want to get married,” they said, so that their spouses could visit them in the hospital.
People didn't go searching for anything. We want to live without a ridiculous agenda constantly shoved in our faces by the transorrists. And leave the kids alone, that's where you lost the sane on the right AND left.
— angela yost (@qbert911) April 17, 2023
We have not been searching for anything. An obvious trans agenda is being pushed by the media, corporations, and Dems. If they are truly stunned, they are stupid as it's becoming clear their agenda is unpopular with the majority.
— Checker Drawers (@EdNo95568024) April 17, 2023
The New York Times certainly isn’t “cisnormative” — they’ve 100 percent adopted the language and the demands of the transgender community. There’s absolutely no suggestion in the piece that “gender-affirming care” for minors who can’t consent to get a tattoo might be up for discussion.
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SNL identifies as not/funny – pushes trans activism on kids instead of doing comedyhttps://t.co/k2ghCA2V4z
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 17, 2023
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