Republican state lawmakers have introduced a record number of laws this year intended to limits the rights of trans, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people — campaigns largely motivated by a small group of wealthy far-right actors with extreme beliefs.
Welcome back to the Takeaway. I'm Melissa Harris-Perry. This year, legislators across the country have introduced a record number of proposed laws to limit the rights of LGBTQ people, hundreds of bills, mostly targeting transgender Americans. Now the proposals include restricting participation for transgender youth and sports, prohibiting supportive medical care, and banning inclusive curriculum in public schools.
It's an essential one because it defies their essential religious view and that if there's anything that's an front to that, then it is blocking God's return. Then there's an even more practical point of view, which is that they know that there are substantial number of specifically white men, rural voters, who you can animate with a few cultural touchpoints and visioning, and they have found out that trans people and the existence of trans people is one of those.
It's about the ideology in which you frame that and the cultural conversation that you then use to encapsulate that even further and you have to understand that they have a coherent view of the world, that they are trying to executing, and that because they know that it's not a popular world's view, that they have to work in an integrated fashion across a number of fronts at the same time, if they have a chance to execute it.
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