There’s nothing inevitable about history’s gaze. But as more and more trans people tell the world who they are and acceptance grows, I truly believe that we will someday look back at this spring as another of America’s many shameful chapters on human rights.
https://twitter.com/hrc/status/1377722615125708806
Whether it marks the start of a long, shameful chapter or the end of one is up to all of us.
In the long term though, I don’t think that this backlash against trans people will win. The internet pushes people to novelty in a way that would make it impossible to put the lid back on gender diversity without structural changes. If people know they can be trans, some will.
The victory of anti-trans bigots would require broader cultural shifts offline towards greater valuation of conformity and if anything American culture in the age of highly-individualized algorithms and niche internet subcultures seems to be moving in the opposite direction.
These last two thoughts are probably what my mind churns over most often recently. Partly survival instinct, of course, but the way that technology begets culture begets history is fascinating to me.
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