Evan Urquhart

Think about it: In several states the religious right is trying to make it illegal for a doctor to prescribe particular treatments (hormone blockers, hrt, certain surgeries) to their patients (trans youth).

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. In what other situations do conservatives want to criminalize doctors and deny treatments?

If you said abortion, you're half right. They also want to limit or, if possible, remove all access to birth control.

OK, abortion and birth control. Surely that's all. Au contraire, mon frere. The use of anti-trans organizing to sneak traditionalist anti-women's equality ideas into the mainstream wouldn't dream of coming for your legal abortion and legal birth control and leaving it there.

Conservatives believe that biology is destiny, and that a woman's destiny is to be a wife and mother. They believe that the female sex is the weaker and should be protected by, but also subordinate to, the male. Are you starting to get it?

By pushing anti-trans attitudes that focus on biology, they're able to target women with anti-feminist, biological essentialist attitudes, without cis women realizing they're the real target.

Their focus on procedures that make trans men infertile (this is always talked about in the context of fertility of "girls" and "daughters"), reinforces the idea that womanhood must always aim for motherhood. For them, it is the only legitimate purpose and role for a woman.

At the same time (but louder) they stress women's vulnerability to male predators in bathrooms, and their athletic weakness compared to cis male athletes. They pretend this is about trans women. It is not. It's about reinforcing cis women's inherent vulnerability and weakness.