Thread by @wesyang

There are no "anti-trans extremists."

There is a political party and professional apparatus that put male rapists and murderers in women's prisons, propagandized kindergartners that any of them could change sex, forced taxpayers and insurance customers to fund electrolysis and facial feminization surgeries, put any boy or man who claimed to be female into changing rooms with your daughters, forced you to declare the gender identity of your toddler at the doctor's office, deceived parents about the social transition of their children at school, banned psychological exploration of the mental health comorbidities that manifest as trans-ideation in the midst of an online social contagion generating 5000 percent increases in trans identification among youth, fined all-female nude spas run by immigrants for excluding men with penises who claimed to be women for violating the human rights of those men, imposed men on the athletic playing fields with your daughters, told thousands of parents to submit to the chemical castration of their children to avert imminent suicide risk for which no evidence has ever existed, subjected thousands of children to macabre sex changes procedures while lying about the existence of an evidence base where none ever existed while claiming on the basis of no evidence that the procedures were life-saving, investigated parents who refused to put their children on a pipeline to a lifetime of medicalized self-harm by pretending they had changed sex and sought to seize custody of them, and threatened to unperson you, attack your livelihood and leave you ostracized if you resisted it in any way with the aid of the monopolistic tech platforms that control the circulation of speech and money around the globe in a new surveillance and censorship regime that sought to dismantle biological reality in the name of narcissistic fantasies that it intended to entrench as the only truth while corrupting the truth-seeking apparatus of science itself -- and there is a majority of normal people in both parties who oppose this nonsense and want it stopped.

Obviously one can posit the existence of anti-trans extremists who want to put trans people in concentration camps and force them to transition and there may even be individuals who harbor such repressive fantasies. But there is no organized movement anywhere in the world that seeks such outcomes and scarcely any individual with a significant public profile who articulates such a vision. The Trump Administration's EO spells out an agenda with zero overlap with such imaginary anti-trans extremism.

It instead seeks to dismantle institutional investment in and coercive state power over those who wish to opt out of compelled obeisance to falsehoods -- it wishes to undo the institutionalization of the pro-trans extremism that seized control of American institutions under Biden.

The transgender movement must observe the same limits on the scope of its ambitions that every movement in a liberal, pluralistic, democratic society must observe. If such limits rule out most of the movement's demands, it reflects the illiberal, undemocratic, and authoritarian nature of its demands which therefore must be refused.