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Phantom_Nook posted...

"trans people are icky,s o they shouldn't have rights."
that about sums it up.

^ This. It's an instinctive sense of either disgust, fear, or hatred, that they attempt to rationalize after the fact. They're working backwards from an instinctive, emotional conclusion.

Oh no I'm going off on a tangent somebody stop m-

To people fixated on control and hierarchy as being part of some sort of "natural order" (lol) or root of morality (lmao), LGBT+ people are easily the most subversive threat to their sensibilities on the surface. We're talking about people who think that your phenotypes at birth don't just functionally define you (in their eyes), but that they determine how you should be permitted to behave and how you deserve to be treated. You were born *THIS* way, therefore you are supposed to exist in *THIS* space and role in society, and if you do not, then you are clearly trying to degenerate society. This is also why they tend to be fixated on penalization rather than harm reduction. You can point out every day until the day you die that the best way to reduce abortions is to pair comprehensive sex education with birth control access, but it doesn't matter because they aren't interested in harm reduction; they want to control behavior and penalize deviance from said approved behavior. "It is the natural order that women get penalized for sex with pregnancy+birth+child-rearing. Abortion is in defiance of that natural order."

It's why even some secular countries are viciously anti-LGBT+, because this attitude is not necessarily reliant upon a religion but it IS very useful to authoritarian governments. One of my favorite videos touching on this is James Somerton's video on Chinese censorship of LGBT+ people. Parts 3 onward in that video are excellent for explaining why it is that oppressive States almost always bee-line for LGBT+ people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIsQ502N0fg&t=1467s