Anti-Trans Bills Encourage Far-Right Violence
That may be the intent. It sure looks like the outcome.
In yesterday’s episode of The Reidout, “Liz Cheney shows America the Jan. 6 committee means business in new video” (June 14, 2022). MSNBC host Joy Reid interviews NBC news reporter Ben Collins. The segment begins at 25:14–31:33 on Apple Podcasts.
The Far-Right’s Freshly Anti-Trans Narrative
Ben Collins says of the right-wing in the United States:
“They don’t really have a cohesive narrative for January 6. They have a cohesive narrative for what they believe the LGBTQ community is doing to their children.”
That narrative has been encouraged by mainstream politics and their successes. Joy Reid points out that, so far in 2022, Republican state legislatures have proposed
“roughly 240 bills targeting LGBTQ Americans — half targeting transgender people specifically. But make no mistake: Their goal is to radicalize the same kinds of people Trump and Trumpism have radicalized on matters of race, immigration, abortion, and demographic change, and to do so by any means necessary.”
They think the center might buy in to the anti-transgender rhetoric, and they think they can unite the center-right with…
