a) you should write off the British but not just for this specifically

b) it started out as a handful of powerful bigots and media leaders but after a decade of being hammered in the press it's not uncommon to hear random people repeating bigot rhetoric and pretending they give a shit.

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it used to be just like a dozen writers at the new statesmen and a few other places. Back when it was pretending to be "radical feminism". They did a bunch of networking, with each other and folk on social media and that's how we got the likes of Posie Parker et Al...
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I first became aware of the campaign when it started with a Breitbart/ Milo Yiannopoulos campaign called Drop The T from LGBT in 2015. Now it has come full circle with a Breitbart pundit on Newsnight talking about the Iran War.

That's what it always was. The anti trans campaign is like a marker.
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The US also showed what a proper 21st century media campaign can do to opinion on issues people are only, at most, half interested in.

It makes me be really cautious cause I definitely have half interests that I am surely susceptible to.
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who then did a bunch of networking with right wing shit heads like the heritage foundation and some nazis as I recall.

This did divide the original base of bigots who reckoned they were definitely left wing feminists but the cat was out of the bag and all the rhetoric they crafted was up for grabs.
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The late 1990s American right-wing anti-gay crusade was launched from a central cabal of US evangelical billionaires and centi-millionaires. But I suspect this more recent anti-trans campaign stems from broad rightwing realization that demonizing a small minority is an efficient route to fascism.
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