Why Fascists Target Gender Transition
It messes with their imagined ‘pure’ origin story for their compatriots
Fascism is a fake nostalgia, invented for political purposes, celebrating a “mythic past.” Typically, it’s imagined that there were once “pure” ethnicities and languages, men were men and women were women, religion spoke the truth, and everyone knew and obeyed their place in the social hierarchy. Supposedly there was a particular way we emerged from the egg, and that’s the way we are always supposed to be. The fascist myth mourns the passing of national greatness and urges us today to reinvigorate it. In the US, recently, it goes by the slogan “Make America Great Again,” as if there were a certain period to which we’d want to return. But the story, of course, is fiction.
Here’s Why Fascists Target Gender Transition
Real quick:
If you change your body, social role, or otherwise change the gender by which others identify you, your transition marks a boundary between your past and future. It’s a personal milestone. Often, it’s a rejection of a past you don’t want (or, at least, some elements of that past) in favor of a future you do want.
This is at odds with the fascist project to celebrate the past as something that is natural…
