So true fact part of how I became aware of tumblr was in the comments of TERF blogs like 10 years ago – GenderTrender, Twanzphobic, Bug Brennan’s place – that I think I found through comments at I Blame The Patriarchy

that I was reading on the same basis I was reading racist blogs, “got a sense this is gonna prove important”, and was right

they’ve been really blitzing things since gay marriage and I almost wonder if that was a plan, to establish before opposition could muster

you know one of the first American gay rights political fights was the 1978 Briggs Initiative in California, to bar queers from working in public schools (California teachers pioneered “coming out” as a political act in front of their classes)

it failed with Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan both endorsing against it, the whole establishment, uh, establishing that there was no future in anti-gay politics, no one of stature even wanted to be associated with the position so it fell to a C-list celebrity named Anita Bryant

anyway this is to say someone’s finally riding normie ideological entrepreneur on this, it’s Rod Dreher and he’s a perfect match, he’s just now getting off flogging his BenOp book and needs a new hobbyhorse, he’s got a big wide enough following that people find him to signal boost their stories, international enough that he can pull in things that aren’t already priced into the American state of play, like some UK radfems a bit ago

he’s riding the “school authorities put my Going Through A Phase kid on the fast track to medical monstrosity without even asking me” tip hard with a side of “trans bullies shout down legitimate skeptics” but he’s got potential on desistance too

maybe stock up on titty skittles