Thread by @MariBrighe

Here’s the thing about Spicy’s comments about trans bathrooms and the whole controversy in general:

Trans folks didn’t start the hubbub. Neither did progressives. The ENTIRE issue as a political issue was manufactured by conservatives as a scare-mongering tactic.

Trans folks have been in your damn bathrooms for decades, and everything was fine. We didn’t start fighting for laws that specifically enumerated our right to use the proper bathrooms. We just used them without making a fuss. It was scary sometimes, but it was largely a non-issue

Back in 2013, Republicans suddenly noticed trans people are like...a real thing and not some big gay myth like El Chupacabra. And they either
a) FREAKED THE EFF OUT
or
b) Saw an easy way to use fear of the unknown to grab votes from an ignorant public.

Either way, that’s when the first “bathroom bills” started rolling out, turning trans folks into a threat instead of just another part of the background fabric of the world.

The GOP wants to pretend that trans folks just woke up one day and decided to “invade” public bathrooms.

But the reality is, trans folks have been way way more concerned about employment discrimination, healthcare access, housing, poverty, changing ID documents, and not getting murdered.

But as I’ve written many many times, the GOP derailed us by trying to make us criminals.

So when the GOP tells you the trans bathroom issue is a “distraction” from “real issues”, they are absolutely right:

A distraction CREATED BY REPUBLICANS to use the manufactured fear of the “culture war” to whip people into right wing hysteria.

TL:DR: Spicer is technically right, but in most asinine, pointless way possible.