Someone did a deep dive into the anxiety about masculinity in billionaires. I found it eye opening. Maybe elites seek ‘authenticity.’ Socially they are cut off, perhaps feel fear that aspects of their identity are derailed. So they pick gender as ‘what’s missing’—and freak out hard, project on ppl.
All the “populist” pundits (MattY et al) argue that we need to dump trans people because it’s popular, despite trans rights being much more popular than many other positions they take.
matty is a fucking clown hack and has been since the early 2000s when he lied about WMDs. Journalism as an institution is beyond saving at this point of the neoliberal death spiral. They are almost all soulless propagandists.
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Or is it a white evangelical obsession that is being used by elites to garner their loyalty, and harness their outsized political influence?
From a slightly older study:
“white evangelicals emerge as the group most supportive of anti-transgender policies”
https://www.prri.org/spotlight/understanding-the-overlooked-religious-middles-attitudes-toward-transgender-policies/?amp=1