>>81588821>massive uptick beginning in late 2010sOh yeah that one's easy. US Republicans realized they lost on the issue of gay marriage, so they needed a newer, more icky, more strange wedge issue to distract from all the policy that would actually effect the majority of Americans. So they shoved trans issues into the limelight because it's absurdly easy for this stuff to get your boomer uncle angry, especially if we make it about his beloved sport ball.
Yes when the subject is constantly at the front of political discourse, more people will know it's even a thing, and more people are going to realize that it resonates with them.
>In 99% of those cases those trans people are just James CharlesWhat the fuck are you talking about.
>"Transbian" aka heterosexual male thinking he is a womanOh I get it, you're one of those idiots who convinced themselves they're smart by never getting out of their own head and letting confirmation bias steer their entire world view.
I'm not talking about the weirdly specific internet corners you sit in and feel qualified diagnosing entire demographics based on, because that would be fucking dumb. I'm talking about South Asian Hijras, the galli of ancient Rome, or Two-Spirits in indigenous North America. As long as humans have built social constructs around our sexual dimorphism we've had people who challenged that binary, and we've made room for those people in the culture plenty of times all over the world.
>Picrel>INB4: Everyone I don't like is a naziIn this case specifically unironically yes. This is actually a thing nazis did. This whole discourse and the science behind it has been held back at least a couple generations because this is very specifically Nazi shit.