watching cis people repeatedly fail to find a way to counter the conservatives' emphasis on sex and thus watch them hopelessly struggle as conservatives bring back extremely invasive "sex testing" and defund or destroy women's organizations and social spaces is so. wow lol
it's seriously difficult for me to think that the "liberal opposition" doesn't secretly desire this too considering you can make a robust case with science and social theory on your side attacking the conservative view of "the immutability and eternity of sex" but this is just. not done.
even in electoral races when trans stuff comes into play the republicans and conservatives still lose. like the transphobia isn't even a particularly super effective strategy just by itself. it's just a total lack of effort to counter it in part because liberal darlings like