...btw I link to evidence that the anti-trans backlash was a highly coordinated and well–funded (especially via right-wing orgs) movement in this essay: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-not-to-defeat-authoritarianism/julia-serano/

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Anti trans is a wedge issue for those who want to roll back both women's and gay rights.
Women aggressively "defending" women's rights against the rights of Trans people are playing along with movements that aim to reverse all the gains of the women's movement.
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...also I discuss the “activists gone too far” trope that Singal seems to invoke around 17:40 into this video: youtu.be/xiU-G0mTYVY – essentially, marked groups (in this case, trans ppl) are routinely viewed as "inviting" or "provoking" any backlash that they receive
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This is called gaslighting and it's a common tactic of narcissist abusers. "You are to blame for the pain you suffer. Even though I am the one inflicting the pain." No wonder people with narcissistic traits are attracted to bigoted ideologies.
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Look, the whole anti-LGBTQI crusade launched in the late 1990s by the Christian right was centrally organized and funded by "The Gathering", the yearly get-together of evangelical billionaires and centi-millionaires. I have the recording of the session in which the grand plan was outlined.
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Meaning, I strongly suspect you're correct about the [more recent] anti-trans crusade.
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Yup! How much was pushed by Sinclair?
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$$$ JK Rowling $$$
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