Most Americans are not. However, it’s an easy hot button topic that triggers the fight or flight response in a subset of people which motivates them to go be loud/aggressive in public/online.
At the end of the day, the same people who go around in public saying things like “if a man ever goes into the girls’ locker room at my daughter’s school, I’ll make sure nobody ever finds the body” are the same people who shrug their shoulders when confronted about how many children die in U.S. schools each year due to gun violence. They’ll contort themselves into a pretzel with excuses – gun violence doesn’t happen at my daughter’s school, you watch too much CNN, enough people around here have guns that if a kid tried that in our schools they’d be shot before they could do any damage, etc without acknowledging that there aren’t even any transitioned/transitioning children attending their tiny rural school.
In my neck of the woods, I suspect a lot of that “trans” outrage is all tied together with the Christian nationalist tendencies of rural, white America. They hate Muslims. They hate LGBTQ+. They hate anybody that’s not MAGA. Then they go to church a few times a week and even their church leadership is feeding into it all. Then they hang out with their friends and discuss conspiracy theories and literally just make up bullshit stories. Then they get online and have no understanding that all they are viewing is algorithmically curated content from within their own bubble.
Most Americans are not. However, it’s an easy hot button topic that triggers the fight or flight response in a subset of people which motivates them to go be loud/aggressive in public/online.
At the end of the day, the same people who go around in public saying things like “if a man ever goes into the girls’ locker room at my daughter’s school, I’ll make sure nobody ever finds the body” are the same people who shrug their shoulders when confronted about how many children die in U.S. schools each year due to gun violence. They’ll contort themselves into a pretzel with excuses – gun violence doesn’t happen at my daughter’s school, you watch too much CNN, enough people around here have guns that if a kid tried that in our schools they’d be shot before they could do any damage, etc without acknowledging that there aren’t even any transitioned/transitioning children attending their tiny rural school.
In my neck of the woods, I suspect a lot of that “trans” outrage is all tied together with the Christian nationalist tendencies of rural, white America. They hate Muslims. They hate LGBTQ+. They hate anybody that’s not MAGA. Then they go to church a few times a week and even their church leadership is feeding into it all. Then they hang out with their friends and discuss conspiracy theories and literally just make up bullshit stories. Then they get online and have no understanding that all they are viewing is algorithmically curated content from within their own bubble.