It's the same bullshit as back in the 80's with the Satanic Panic just fueled by pearl-clutching idiots who put more sugar packets in their sweet tea than they have braincells in their head.
I'm gender-fluid enough I can still present as masculine when I need to, because holy fuck the paperwork, but yeah I know places here in Arkansas where idiots would 100% do shit like start a fight with someone over which bathroom they use. Why the hell are people caught up so much about relieving normal human bodily functions? Oh, right, because they're worried that a transgender person will make their child do the unthinkable and question sexuality. Pearl-clutching intensifies.
I'm conservative on a lot of issues but oh my God. The amount of hypocrisy and idiocy from the idiots in charge makes me depressed sometimes. Just let people go take a piss! If you're so scared your kid might ask questions, then why the hell are you their parent? Oh, right, because Camilla, the Latina babysitter had to take off work because her child is sick and you have to step up to the plate for 5 minutes and now you're trying to understand this tiny person you vaguely remember posting about on Facebook 5 years ago and only update when they do something special now is asking you questions you don't want to answer because you were taught sex was a forbidden topic and should never be discussed by your own morally repressed parents.
The number of posts I see promoting violence and hate has skyrocketed in the past few months, and I can't help but feel it's only a matter of time before we get another Orlando nightclub shooting by some sexually repressed dude being told that gay and trans people are abominations and that God told him so and to send them to Hell. Then, just like school shootings, we'll get a ton of copy-cat killers with gun calibers bigger than their dicks trying to one-up each other.
What I find annoying is when you have all these hypocrites who jump up on a soap box end up slipping off when it comes to light they're the ones in the bathroom in drag soliciting people for gay sex. They're so scared someone will kink-shame them that they double down on the lie and try to ban the very thing they're into just because they're ashamed. "Oh no, my constituents will boot me out of office if they find out I like taking it up the ass by a big burly black dude." Like, bro, who hasn't wanted Martin to take you up the ass? Martin's a cool dude and always cuddles after. But like, I find the guy dressing as Julius Caesar to be hilarious because do you have any idea how gay the ancient world was??? Bro, Spartan women used to dress as men to make it easier for their husbands to transition to heterosexual life so they could have kids. Oh, look, women having to cross-dress! Bet no one learned that one in high school history class.
I know I keep going on about being gay but it's the same struggle. Idiots will continue to believe that it's their "right" to protect kids against transgender when they're the ones feeling threatened. Most kids aren't nearly as worried about what you present as because they're not worried about it. Literally it doesn't even cross their mind that it's a problem because every kid at some point has played dress up. But sure, use kids as a shield because it's easier than telling everyone that deep down you envy anyone so open about themselves they're willing to do and dress how they want.