Ehhh, I’d question that. I’ve seen a heckuva lot of stuff in the media lately claiming all kinds of crazy things about gay and trans people. Calling them groomers, publishing videos out of context, etc.
As a matter of fact, I’ve experienced this personally. my boyfriend was featured recently online while he was doing outreach and charity work for the community. I won’t include the context here for the sake of privacy, but suffice it to say the video was edited in such a way as to imply he was interacting with a child in an inappropriate way at a public function. The post got millions of views, thousands of likes and hundreds of angry commenters worried about “the children”. My mind was legitimately blown how sleazy these media people are, as my boyfriend and I scrolled through the comments, laughing at all the people who were genuinely angry over literal fake news. They know exactly what buttons to push. It was an eye opening experience.
To me this is definitive proof that this is all culture war bullshit. The people publishing this stuff are only in it for the clicks and the cash. And in between all of it is us, the ordinary folks caught in the middle just trying to get by. We’re the real casualties. Because at the end of the day, it’s profitable to pit us against each other. It’s really that simple.
On one news site just last week I counted 5 stories similar to this one on their front page alone. This is a propaganda campaign focused on “othering” an entire demographic of folks who just so happen to have body dysphoria, something they cannot help.
As Hank Hill would say: “That ain’t right.”