We're talking about transphobia. The effects of the hatred of trans people.
Jokes are a form of rhetoric. Anti-gay "humor" was a staple of lots of stand-up comedy in the 1980s. It's markedly less so now, because as a society we generally have more respect for gay people now than we did then, and we understand that hateful anti-gay "jokes" aren't cool.
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And, more importantly, we understand on some level that those jokes went hand-in-hand with a culture that looked down on gay people, that they worked to normalize the hatred of gay people, just as anti-trans "jokes" work to normalize and perpetuate transphobia today.
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