Until right-wing media/politicians made it a fetish object and covered it obsessively, knowing that people like you would fall for it? Yeah, we know.
Children are not being encouraged to get gender reassignment surgeries. That's just a preposterous, fake news talking point. I guarantee that you don't know a single person who has encountered this. There were just 1,400 kids between ages 6-17 NATIONWIDE who received puberty blocking medication in 2021. There were 56 kids ages 13-17 who had genital surgeries from 2019 to 2021. This is a cause for national concern?
(Speaking of genital mutilation, why don't conservatives have anything to say about male circumcision? I didn't send my son to get his penis skin ripped off straight out of the womb. Why did so many of you?)
The idea that drag shows are taking place at elementary schools is also simply not happening. If parents want to take their kids to see a man wearing a dress outside of school, that's their choice. Again, I don't know anyone who does this and I am sure you don't either. But conservatives act like it's everywhere. Much more common is parents who leave their kids alone with an ipad/computer with internet access, which has almost certainly exposed them to much more scandalous material than any drag show.
The only trans panic issue that has any kind of merit is fairness in athletic competition, which frankly should not be in any rational person's top 100 most pressing political topics. But conservative media outlets run 10 stories a day about it because they know it will get people like you all riled up. Who has the agenda?
