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Transphobia will fail in the end
In the US and Britain a general transphobic trend has become embedded in right wing politics, the latest in a long line of hate targeting vulnerable minorities. Historically transphobia has been rooted in a society wide misunderstanding of trans identities, but the modern weaponization of this has taken root at the same time as the targeting of other minorities has picked up steam. Trans rights, essentially the right to live and exist in your affirmed gender, are attacked because conservatives see trans folk as easy targets, a minority which they can point to and see look at those freaks over there. What those right wing trolls forget is that societies as a whole have come a long way since even the 1980s, with Gen Z and Gen A at the forefront of normalising gender identities outside their narrow version of reality.
This is why I believe that while the darkest night for trans rights may yet come to pass, the future has a brighter dawn for trans rights precisely because the younger generation simply do not care about gender and gender identity. If you look at or attend any of the TERF events you see they skew Gen X or boomer, with only a smattering of younger women in attendance. Exclusionary feminists argue that this is because they are uncool or younger folk are afraid to be seen, yet the reality is that TERF ideology is whipped up by older women desperate to cling onto relevance.
