So true fact part of how I became aware of tumblr was in the comments of TERF blogs like 10 years ago \u2013 GenderTrender, Twanzphobic, Bug Brennan\u2019s place \u2013 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, \u201cgot a sense this is gonna prove important\u201d, and was right
they\u2019ve 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 \u201ccoming out\u201d 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\u2019s finally riding normie ideological entrepreneur on this, it\u2019s Rod Dreher and he\u2019s a perfect match, he\u2019s just now getting off flogging his BenOp book and needs a new hobbyhorse, he\u2019s 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\u2019t already priced into the American state of play, like some UK radfems a bit ago
he\u2019s riding the \u201cschool authorities put my Going Through A Phase kid on the fast track to medical monstrosity without even asking me\u201d tip hard with a side of \u201ctrans bullies shout down legitimate skeptics\u201d but he\u2019s got potential on desistance too
maybe stock up on titty skittles