A map of the risk for anti-trans laws. For Pride, America feels like it has cleaved into two countries - one which targets transgender people everywhere, and one that has taken huge protective steps.

Sometimes a visual is nice just to help hammer home just how bad things have gotten in parts of the United States. We’ve got a lot of fighting left to do for trans rights.

  • Omegamanthethird@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Two explanations for that.

    The first is G O Projection. Accuse your enemy of what you yourself are doing, and then you can “both sides” it.

    The second is that the things they point at aren’t at are either social and not legislative (cancel culture, wokeness, etc), legislative protections rather than acts of aggression (protected groups), or incidentally involve culture (guns).

    But honestly, it’s primarily projection and then attempts to justify it.