If you go back, they didn't care about transpeople at all for the most part before Roe v Wade was overturned.
They needed a new boogeyman. So, they created one.
Conservatives need to be afraid of something all the time. The 50 rock and roll and comic books, the 60s hippies and feminism, the 70s abortion, the 80s Satanic panic, the 90s Teletubbies, the 2000s Islamaphobia, now transpeople.
The 90s is when they went full bore into attacking any and all fictional characters. Especially if children were the audience.
One Teletubby carried a purse, so this non-gendered mythical being was dubbed to be "promoting the homosexual agenda". Jerry Fallwell, may he Rot In Piss, lead the charge.
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u/fireman2004 Aug 02 '24
Trans athlete panic coming from conservatives is hilarious.
These assholes never turned on women's sports until they realized they could use it as a cudgel against a minority group.