It's a zealous reification of the entire conservative ethos: children as property of the father, queerness as depriving society of reproductive resources, reduction of an individual's worth to their reproductive capacity, and violent enforcement of the heterosexual regime via regulating sex itself.
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Jessica Kant
The right-wing sees trans kids as a sort of magic key to unlock everything they've been trying relentlessly to get at for the past half century — a universal answer for every culture war at once. If your analysis ignores this, you're missing the historical moment completely.
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