What Does Twitter Think ‘Destroy Transgenderism’ Means?

When Matt Walsh said it, what did his Twitter followers hear?

After Michael Knowles told CPAC that “transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely,” Matt Walsh tweeted his agreement on March 5.

“Transgenderism as a concept and an ideology,” Walsh declared, “needs to be destroyed entirely.” He was tiptoeing around a distinction between someone’s concept of themselves or others and the purported ideology by which they live, as contrasted with something real about that person (since, in his view, using trans-related words doesn’t prove that anyone can really be transgender), a thought/reality distinction he imagines the media will swallow so that he will win ongoing license to say terrible things. Children are “but one phase in the overall war,” he said. He means he does not accept transgender adults either. And he is waging war on everyone.

A prominent voice for trans rights on Twitter (who nevertheless only has 4% of the followers that Walsh has) asked him publicly for clarification: “What would it mean” to destroy transgenderism entirely for people of all ages? What policies are being proposed here? She tossed in an insult, asking him to use simple vocabulary for his followers’ benefit.