This was specifically in response to a post about Mike Johnson that called him a creepy dude with incest vibes for involving his daughter in a purity ball (fair), and immediately went on to talk about how he must have a Grindr account and love cock?? Absolutely no reasonable connection, just straight up ‘guy I hate = degenerate, degenerate = gay’ ideology. I see it on fedi an unfortunate amount, and people are defensive as hell about how ‘it’s not actually homophobia!!’ to say shit like that.

Another version of this is people, even left-leaning people, thinking we shouldn’t respect the identities of people in prison, or that prisoners shouldn’t have access to gender-affirming care or not.

You either respect the legitimacy of trans identities or you don’t. Yet even many left leaning folks treat gender identity as a privilege that someone earns, something that can be revoked if a person commits a crime or has bad opinions on some issue. When someone does this, they are proving that they don’t actually respect trans lives, no matter how many times they use the word “valid.” If you oppose trans care for prisoners, you are intrinsically saying that you don’t actually believe in trans healthcare and that you see it as somehow apart or anything other than the life-saving treatment it is. You don’t get to deny medical care to someone just because they’re in prison. Yet many, even those nominally in favor of trans rights, reveal their true colors when the rights of prisoners are brought up.