This is quite bizarre. Imagine being told about racism or homophobia or something similar and saying 'I don't want to think about this right now.' There is something about trans issues that makes people just want to stick their head in the sand in a way that we would never do with other social issues, it's so strange
IMO, it’s the (quite frankly, clever) hijacking itself to homophobia and (more recently) racism (BLM) that has allowed it to flourish and seep into society as deep as it has. People mostly have a visceral revulsion to racism and to a lesser extent, homophobia, so they want to go out of their way to
of course not be supporting anything like that (which is why the argument against transgender always falls back to “it’s like what happened to gay people in the 80s/it’s like saying you wouldn’t date a black person) used as a guilty battering ram. “I don’t want to think about this right now” is a sort of admission seeping through that ‘things aren’t making sense but they
should make sense because I’m not racist, or homophobic, so maybe it’s more complicated than I can understand’ (when it’s not: there is male and there is female, there are men and there are women. Literally nothing has changed or become more complicated except language and society).