How Anti-Trans Politics Became A Blueprint For Control

Start with a question few campaigns want you to ask: why pour half your ad dollars into a topic affecting less than one percent of people? We follow the money, the messages, and the laws to map how anti-trans politics became a blueprint for control—crafted outrage that tests how far a state can reach into private life. From the bathroom panic of 2016 to healthcare bans and executive orders, we unpack the strategy that turned a small, misunderstood community into a proxy for power.

We walk through a clear timeline: bathroom bills that fizzled in court, a detour through the military, then a full pivot to medical care where public knowledge is thin and fear campaigns thrive. Along the way, we break down the “protect the children” and “save women’s sports” narratives and show how they police femininity while ignoring actual medical standards. We also shine light on the desire-to-disgust pipeline—how private fascination morphs into public shame and punitive policy—and why this emotional churn is so politically useful.

Behind the scenes, model bills and talking points spread state to state, often citing pseudoscience or even scripture to fix identity in law. That copy-paste machinery matters: once identity can be defined and denied by statute, the precedent expands. This isn’t a culture skirmish; it’s an operational test of authoritarian tools—subpoenas, funding threats, curriculum bans—that rarely stop at one group. If you care about civil liberties, medical freedom, and the line between church and state, this conversation connects the dots you’re not meant to see.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Why Target A 1 Percent Minority
• 3:45 Ads, Priorities, And The Manufactured Outrage
• 8:20 From Bathrooms To Bans: A Timeline
• 16:30 Weaponizing Fear: Kids And Sports
• 23:10 Desire To Disgust: The Cruelty Pipeline
• 28:00 Scripture, Pseudoscience, And Copy-Paste Laws
• 34:20 Executive Orders And Bureaucratic Erasure
• 40:05 Authoritarian Playbook And Control

Transcript

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Okay, so my last podcast was about transgender, uh, the rise of the anti-work movement, and I feel that I probably I didn't cover the topic as succinctly or as comprehensively as what I would like to to in order to do it justice. And I came across um some content on YouTube which really, really made a lot of sense. And um and yeah, um I I was able to understand really um a lot more about why there has been this rise in anti-woke movements and anti-trans movements uh from the right. Um and yeah, it's quite interesting, so I wanted to share that with you today. So if we go back to um the end of 2024, we look at Trump's advertising campaigns. Nearly half of all of his advertising um was uh focusing around anti-trans movements, not anything else so like not about the economy, not about any other um issues at hand. Half of his ad campaign focused about anti-trans um uh ideology. So um let's just think about that for a minute. The trans community makes up a very small minority of the population in America, like around or less than one percent of the American population. And so it's kind of astounding to think about it and realize that the Trump campaign spent 50% of its campaign money on an issue affecting less than 1% of the population when there was so much else going on, like the cost of living was rising, immigration and border issues. Yet they decided to focus on a very small minority group. And I guess the question is why was that? And the reasoning behind it is actually quite uh devious. The um landmark ads that they did uh published false claims that Kamala Harris wanted to give free medical uh transitioning care to immigrants, and the the punchline was you know, Kamala cares more about them than they, and Trump is for you. Now, looking at the general population and um what their priorities were, trans rights was last in terms of priorities for voters in the US. Uh, so you know, I guess the reason for focusing on this wasn't due to an over a concern from the public, it wasn't due to the fact that there was a a growing uh rise of transgender people in the community. Before Trump made a whole halapalooza about it, like no one in America was asking for this to be a war. Um, so why, why indeed did the Trump administration choose to push this to the forefront of their campaign? So um this podcast, uh sorry, not podcast, this uh video on YouTube really beautifully breaks the whole issues down into different segments over a time frame. Um so the first topic that they covered was that the Trump commit administration had to turn the 1% into um a political weapon, so turning the transgender people into a political weapon. So fundamentally, um trans people who represent less than 1% of the population can be weaponized uh to represent anything that the right wing or conservative voters dislike. So that would be f uh feminism and women's rights, science, liberalism, even uh religion. And it's uh an efficient tool to use because less than one percent of the population is trans. So you can turn them into uh villains, if you will, without alienating uh any of your voting population, basically. So it's quite a devious thing. The Trump uh r uh administration has like uh legalized dozens of anti-trans laws banning specific issues to do with transgenderism, um, despite the knowledge that the general population and even most Republicans apparently um support expanding transgender rights. Now, I'm I'm gonna just pause there and fact-check that because uh the video that I was watching said that most Republicans um supported expanding transgender rights, and that's not exactly true, although one would say that there has been a profound drop in support. So around about uh circa sort of 2016, when there was all that halapalooza going on about bathroom rights, so 44% of Republicans uh uh supported uh laws restricting transgender rights. So only for so a majority of them did actually. 60, sorry, that was 60, 6% supported uh not restricting transgender rights. And then in by 2023, that had risen to 20% only, so and 80% was against transgender rights. So yeah, that that is actually correct. What was said in that video that that um before the rise of the anti-woke movement there was more support for expanding the rights, and um and then as time went on, of course, as Trump uh r uh revved up his anti-woke movement, then that that support dropped off um to a minority. So basically the the point being is that what the Trump administration has done is taken a an issue that not many people cared about or were definitely were not opposed to, and then turned this minority into a an enemy population um in order to ramp up um ramp up anger and hatred to leverage support for his campaign, basically. And because it's a minority, of course, you're not alienating um uh most of your voters. So it's quite cleverly constructed and devious. Because it's not a topic that most people think about or had t spent time previously thinking about, because the knowledge about actual gender affirming um uh care is not widely known, um, then that created a vacuum from which they could uh pretty much say anything and generate fear. So part two of this whole uh topic is when did this all start? We can trace this back to 2015 and 2016, when there was that whole debate about bathrooms, and um Trump was asked, you know, if if um Caitlin Dret Jenner, who is a transgender woman, wanted to use the bathroom in Trump Tower, you would would you be concerned, you know, whether she used the ladies' toilet? And Trump said, no, I wouldn't be concerned about that. So same-sex marriage rights uh were established in 2015, and after that, the ri the religious people on the right needed a new um cause to lobby against. By 2016, there were 44 new anti-trans bills across 16 states in America. That was uh double the amount the year before, and it was all around the use of bathrooms by transgender people and sorry, uh sports as well. That that also featured. From 2017 to 2018, there was uh Trump's federal bills, and basically in 2017, I think um Trump banned uh trans people being part of the military. Civil rights uh m groups were all over this and and obviously called it for what it was, which was discr discriminatory, you know. 2018 it was reported that uh the federal government was drafting uh a new bill that uh gender uh there are only two genders legally, and that th those genders are determined by only which sex you were born with uh or uh born with, basically. And that definition um obviously uh would uh effectively erase the recognition of trans people um by the American government uh sec essentially. So they became legislated out of existence. So in 2020 onwards, then we moved on to healthcare bans. So the bathroom bills uh fell over in court, they didn't go anywhere. So the right needed a new um angle to take pot shots at the transgender community. So healthcare bans took over um bathroom rights as the most um commonly written bills in the um the government. 2023 and 2024, the number of um bills supporting uh healthcare bans uh increased dramatically. And there was record bans for uh legislation against uh uh well against trans health care, basically. Um came out saying that he was going to reverse all of uh uh Biden's policies about gender-affirming care to trans people, calling them ridiculous and also highlighting or uh focusing on um the care that children get uh to transition and um you know demonising it as as mutilatory or harmful, um, which is again, as I say, that's easy for the public to buy into because remember, not many people have much knowledge on what is actually involved in transitioning or medical transition or gender-affirming care of of children and adults in the population. The point is that this wasn't outrage uh within a community that uh as in the video they call it organic. It wasn't naturally arising outrage, it was a carefully crafted uh political um scheme to enrage the public against um a topic that they really hadn't thought much about or had not much of an opinion about prior to this movement. Each of these three phases that they moved through, the bathrooms, then the military, and then healthcare, uh, gave unique talking points and reasons for the public to uh become um outraged. So this leads us to the next segment, which is weaponising fear for votes. And the video says fun as well, but I think it's more votes, really. So um pretty much the this topic hits every evocative uh topic within a that can be stirred up within a community. The first one being protect the children. The uh narrative being given that like young innocent children are firstly being convinced into gender dysphoria and then rushed into mutilatory surgeries and harmful medical um hormones, um, and that this was harmful and going to lead to them regretting this later in life. This whole narrative is false and it doesn't represent what happens in the real world. In in the real world, uh gender-affirming surgery hardly ever happens, if at all, in children. They have to be over 18. And um the medical care consists only really of using puberty blockers, which when you stop using them, uh the the uh effects of them do reverse. Most care actually is counselling um and and talking and and teasing out where that young person's uh identity is really. The support, it's a supportive form of care as opposed to the more harmful um uh treatments that were done in the past with the aim to convert people away from being trans, which uh there's a vast amount of evidence that tells us that those treatments, firstly, are not were not ever successful, they were harmful with high well, almost universally these people suffered with PT post-traumatic stress disorder after having that. And thirdly, suicide rates like rose astronomically with these treatments. So, you know, this is not a harmful treatment that's given to children, it's a supportive treat treatment, not involving anything that is irreversible and mainly focuses around l listening to that child and hearing about what their inner struggles and inner experience of their self themselves is. That is not a dangerous thing. And and the other thing too is that these treatments have been FDI FDA approved for decades, they are safe. However, in this uh cli climate, you know, where there's a lot of mistrust um brought about by being in a post-COVID war world world and we're on the verge of a revolution globally. There's a lot of mistrust in government and and health organizations and and literature, and so uh when there's that sort of a climate, then fear is a useful device for making people um buy into the Trump regime's um rhetoric, basically. The second um button that's been pushed uh to weaponize um to make people be uh stand against transgender and and and um gender effeminate care is the whole issue in say in saving women's sports. That the that that transgender women are just transitioning to cheat so that they could win more gold medals, which is absolutely ridiculous. These bills that were wrote to protect women's sports uh uh were uh sold as being, you know, protecting femininity and being protective of women, but that was not the truth. Um, if anything, uh but it yeah, in reality, they police femininity. Black and um naturally athletic girls with more muscle um mu muscle bulk bulk are targeted as well. So there are some women, like myself, I'm quite mesomorphic, I naturally build more muscle. Uh well then that that that the debate then shifted to, well, look at these women who are naturally more muscular. You know, now we've got to start doing chromosome levels on them and testosterone levels as well to see if they are at a disadvantage. But there's there's cisgender women, so you know, like this this is where it all got out of control. And it's not the case, you know, I guess the thing is that if you're if you've got women competing against others, there are some women who biologically will have um um uh an ad an advantage against other cisgender women, not because of their gender, but because of their biological makeup. You know, but it was all about control and policing femininity. Or rather, we're not talking about fairness here anymore, it's about control. Trump came out and said he was going to ban and criminalise sex-changing uh surgery or treatment in in children, um uh forever ending the lie that that someone can be the uh wrong gender trapped in a wrong body. So it pretty much now is controlling how people experience themselves. Isn't saying, you know, if you're a trans, if you have gender dysphoria and you are cis male cis female and and want to be a female, then your internal experience is no longer legitimate, and we're gonna control that. We're gonna control your your right to uh how you interpret your internal experiences. And so as these bills were brought into effect, uh that only further accelerated this movement of anti-wokism and anti-transgender movement, because once you had one bill, they could just copy and paste that the the um uh language from that bill and put it into the next bill and move on to the next issue, and and it became set a dangerous platform for ever strengthening precedents across uh in in lawmaking. So we're talking about bills uh about surrounding education from identity documentations to um toilet bans to health care bans. Um it it became easier and easier to move through these uh instituting these levels of restriction to s essentially erase this uh this group of transgender people as the movement progressed. That's why you see identical language popping up across multiple states in their legislation, uh, because they didn't have to think anymore, you know, about how to get these bills to pass. They simply had to take the last bill, copy it, and put it forward, and because the last bill had passed, then the next bill shall pass as well. Next point that they raise is that surrounding pornography and the and the um pathway to cruelty mechanism, which is particularly salacious. Now, if you look at pornography, trans porn is the most commonly searched, it's a very well not most commonly, it's very high up in terms of uh how often it's searched across porn sites. And interestingly enough, like the red states, the most conservative, have the highest amount of searches for transgender pornography. So what happens is there is desire that exists, and instead of these people accepting trans as part of the community, they are ashamed and they have to and they become disgusted at themselves, and so then that leads to public rejection or um or rage. So essentially there's two two parts to that. You know, they're so disgusted that that's what they find hot and sexy that outwardly they have to even stand even stronger against that, you know, and and use disgust um as as a mechanism, you know, oh that's so disgusting, you know, and but because really what they're trying to hide is their internal dark well, their internal desires to look at transgender porn, you know, and then then they also become angry at themselves. So it it fuels a tremendous amount of rage as well. And so this is where the desire to cruelty pipeline is born. Private fascination becomes public disgust. So people project their inward desires, outward uh reframed as it as it being a threat, you know, to vulnerable people in the community like children and so forth. Outrage rage is then weaponised into um uh politically, into legislation, basically, and then that that garnishes uh votes and support from the constituents. So shame fuels panic, and the panic justifies cruelty executed um, yeah, not just by government, by the way, but you know, by everyone in the community. It could be exemplified in several ad campaigns. You know, there's one ad campaign that that shows the book genderqueer, and then they label it as pornography and a reason to exclude it from schools and so forth. You know, and they're calling like sort of literature that is directed at children for education um as pornography and make it seem really perverse when in fact it's not, you know, it's just an educational thing about a small minority population that exists. Uh, but it's I guess the adults who have this lust for you know transgender porn pervert it almost and make it sexual. By 2023, um there were lawmakers were pr were uh pushing performance bans so broad uh that the cruelty uh against the trans people was like astronomical, basically. Basically, to summarize it in a nutshell, erotic interest becomes shame, shame becomes panic, and then panic becomes the law. Once trans people become objects of desire and disgust, then that just is money for jam for the political machinery to steamroll ahead with their erasure of the of trans people. The next topic they talk about is scripture, science, and copy-paste laws. So as we've already established, none of this evolved organically out of a real problem in society that that that then evoked concern. This has all been manufactured via two methods, policy and propaganda. So policy, they're a conservative legal group called Alliance Defending Freedom and the Heritage Foundation. Both of these organizations have been drafting model bill since 2018. They have called designated, you know, like um uh professional respected groups such as the American College of of Pediatricians as as a hate group, which is ridiculous, they're not. They are a um a professional organization of doctors aiming at establishing what best medical practice is, that they are not a hate group. This is ridiculous. And then these uh organizations, these conservative organizations, uh published a lot of pseudoscience which flew in the face of what the best medical care uh um had published. And and so they pivoted from bathroom rights to health care bans because basically they found that this uh garnished more political support. And the copy-paste uh uh practices are obvious if you look across the legislature. An Indiana bill declared sex and gender, being the biological classification of male and female as designated by the genitals that were present at birth, without regard to an individual's psychological or chosen or subjective experience. A West Virginia resolution went ahead even further, citing theological ideologies, stating there are only two biological sexes, male and female. This has been the case since the beginning of human history as documented in the Bible. This is no longer policy debate, this is scripture, religion as stature. And this is where we see a dangerous precedence of there being no separation between church and state, which is written into the Constitution by the way, that that's that church and state should very much be separate. I want to pause to to just make another comment that I make frequently on X, and that is that Islamic extremism is is born out of there being no separation of religion and state, you know, and we're seeing a rise of Christian extremism in the same regard in America, where there's cre religion is being brought more and more into politics and it's a really dangerous precedence. And let me tell you, Christian extremism is no better, it's just as bad as Islamic extremism. Groups like Do No Harm emerged to support these these bills with uh this sense of medical authority, like even though everything that they were saying and everything that they were proposing went directly in opposition to what the best medical uh practice is and what the best medical evidence shows us, which as I've told I've I've commented on this before, you know, like this the gen the studies looking at uh gender-affirming care show improvements in mental health, in reduction in suicidiality. And the only thing to compare that is is is care which uh attempts to uh push people uh convert people out of being trans, and those treatments are unquestionably universally harmful. So we have an uh a political machine that is now steamrolling out of control based on pseudoscience and promoting harmful practices. But the government, the Trump administration, doesn't care for the safety of its constituents at all. All they care about is power. And this brings us to propaganda. There have been millions spent on anti-trans advertisements. Uh the themes of these advertisements uh talk talk about, you know, dangerous drugs, mutilatory surgical procedures, which you've already established doesn't happen to children, um, focusing on the perverse grooming of children. Um uh that's what you know gender affirming care is is being uh uh sold as. And there was saturation marketing basically. So they could, because they'd already built the the um base of rage and fear, uh then all they had to do was um uh mass produce uh false messages over and over again, and people started to believe it and they don't want to hear the truth now. So the next topic is executive power. By 2025, the Trump administration layered on exec executing orders, so keeping men out of women's sports became one of the topics. Protecting children from chemical and surgical mutilation, all very evocative languages used. And my personal favourite, eradicating anti-Christian bias. One order actually described pediatric medical um care as surgical and chemical mutilation of children. Such evocative language, you know, and and dismissed like the standards of care accepted broadly across the whole world amongst medical communities as junk science, when in fact it's not. That the this rhetoric, uh this propaganda justified subpoenaing hospital records and and uh f a freezing of funding uh for this type of care. So this whole movement came uh from somewhere very purposeful, schematic, and directed from religious groups, political marketing machines, all with this agenda of um leveraging votes and staying in power. So it brings us to the next topic: political control. This, my dear friends, is all about political control and nothing else. It is not about safety of the community, it is not about protecting the safety of children, this is about political control. So once you um define legally sex as being immutable, then the administration pretty much has a vehicle by which it can dictate things a lot of stuff, things about bathroom courts, uh identification document uh uh identification document uh documents, and even whether someone actually exists in the eyes of the law. You now give the government the uh the authority to make people not exist, basically. So Trump, by by changing the the law to say that there are only two genders, male and female, actually he just erases all of the transgender people, uh, even though they're still real, they're out there and they exist, but their legitimacy of experience of self is is is erased. And that's why um getting the builder pass that of sex being only there only being two sexes, unchangeable um and and only determined by what you were born with at uh born with essentially, why that was such an important bill to pass because all of a sudden they had the the ability to completely control whether a group of people existed, basically. This is a planned bureaucratic erasure. Once you give the government uh the authority to do this, history has told us that that that that never stays contained just to one population or one group of people. They effectively erase trans people, they will move on next to race and and erasing um, you know, people of colour's rights. They will then move on to women's rights. It won't stop until you've got an out of control authoritarian patriarchy that serves to enrich only white privileged males. Jim Crow laws at laws you um used race uh were used to control race and life. And his sodomy laws policed queer people. We've seen uh this sort of machinery used to police black, queer, and female people um across history. It's a dangerous precedence. The pattern is very clear. Once the state uh gains the machinery to regulate identity, rarely do they just stop at one group, you know. So I mean, pretty much when Republicans uh you know frame it as protecting children and women in sports, it's bullshit, okay? And look, I liken this an analogy to something else. You know, um I went to work at a workplace once and I noticed that that there was this culture whereby, you know, uh every week or every month there seemed to be one particular workplace member or or colleague that was targeted for ousting, you know. And and I looked at this culture and I went, Well, you know, Michelle, uh, yeah, that's all very well and good, but one day that could be very much your head on the shopping block. And if you think you're exempt from that, then you're just silly. And you know, that did seem turn out to Be the case, but what I'm saying is that you know all these people sitting around going, Well, you know, uh, that'll never be me, that'll never be me, I'll continue to vote for MAGA, MAGA. Well, let me tell you, if you're a woman voting for Donald Trump, that will be you one day because his misogyny is out of control. Uh, so you know, it's it's just silly to walk around with your blinkers on. And so that leads us at uh the next segment, which is the authoritarian connection. Where this movement starts is by regulating a minority uh in the community. And you know, if the administration can successfully squash rights of trans people, they then know that they can very much reach into effect and control private life. I mean, it might seem that anti-trans rules are a distraction from real politics because there is a lot of bad shit going on that the Trump administration doesn't want you to see. No, this goes for much more far far reaching than this. Anti-trans movements are the politics, basically. It's it it's the Trump administration saying, well, yeah, you know, how far can we push this bar? What can we get away with? They they are effectively controlling a population, they're criminalizing medical care, which is known to be best medical practice. They're censoring what teachers can teach children. This has got, you know, like dictatorship written all over it, Nazism, you know, um, Hitler, all of that. Like these laws build capacity for oppression of people, basically. Rarely do they stop at one issue. You know, this is going to lead to what has led to abortion bans, you know, bans on literature, bans on further restrictions, controlling of everyday life for Americans. So this anti-trans movement is not a culture war and should not be dismissed as such. No, no, this is a this is an example of a culture war being used as as the means by which uh the administration can start to exert control on the general population in a very, very surreptitious and underhanded manner uh that is very insidious. This leads us to the next topic, which is religion, which, you know, this is uh the linchpin of this whole topic. This is not just background noise. Uh, you know, this this is this is one of the main issues in in this topic. We're talking about how deeply religious communities like West Virginia literally wrote the Bible into its resolution, you know, there is not any separation of church and state there. You know, the in terms of the gender thing, uh the wording is used, this has been the case since the beginning of human history as written in the Bible. So this is now about way more than gender. It's more about estab re-establishing a white Christian nationalist order, you know. Back to the 1950s, where men and women have their own rigid law, rule uh roles in in society, you know. And the trans existence undermines this white Christian 1950s ideal by telling us that gender is not not rigid, you know, it it it is more defined by what one's internal um experiences is uh experiences experience is and can can be changed uh to the whim of that person. You know, they can live how they choose to live, not how the Bible determines it. And this threatens uh the very basis of this white Christian nationalism. Um it it threatens uh the uh this movement as becoming a a universal thing within America. You know, if you're letting the trans people exist, then we're not adhering to this Christian nationalism anymore, and that's not where the Republican Party at the moment wants to go. And um, you know, this this fear that they're gonna lose America's gonna lose its identity as being a white Christian nation uh that is that is used to stir up the the the noise and the opposition um and feel anger and hatred against trans people because they feel that their identity is at threat because of the existence of transgender and queer people. And that is simply ridiculous. Now we have the reframing of the anti-trans movement not just as policy or legislation, but as a holy war where we must go and crusade against it, you know. And you see this very much in social media. People are very, very impassioned and and very uh emotional about this cause, even though they maybe don't even know a trans person, it doesn't even affect their life, you know. And the next section is really, and very sadly too, this whole movement, it was never ever even about transgender people. These people are the the um the innocent bystanders and um so like why what is it well why is it you know why are right the right obsessed with trans people? Um because pretty much and very sadly trans people are the perfect uh political device. They are a tiny minority of which not many people have a good understanding of, and they can be demonised and and painted out to be a threat to existence, a threat to the identity of white American nationalists. They can distract swing voters and justify um justify the use of an authoritarian clout and cruelty uh to suppress these people. They're the perfect tool by which um conservative um concerns can lead to religious uh religious crusades, basically. Don't fool yourself. This was never about protecting children, trans kids, or protecting female athletics um or women in sports. This is never about any concern for the constituents within the community and never about any concern for preservation of Christian um rules or moral moralities within society, not at all. Trump is not a religious man. You know, we know that, that he just started to s to pretend to be religious because that garnished him more voters, and that's very, very easy to see as very transparently um uh um apparent. This is all about power and staying in office. This is a Republican party becoming unhinged, descending into cruelty and insanity, basically. And we've seen this in history, like with Hitler and the Jews, you know, like minor restrictions, then somehow down the track led to fucking concentration camps and and and uh populations being gassed in gas chambers, you know. Um but like land, they were silently led to the society in Germany, was slowly led to the slaughterhouse. With the progressive normalization of these radically oppressive and authoritarian rules, that becomes normalized, and then they can move on to the next more outrageous restriction in public life. And see, we can see how this has steamrolled in this in this paradigm uh across the timeline. You know, we started by it with sort of silly debates about toilets in 2016, then bans in sport, uh definition debates, and then all of a sudden now we're banning or healthcare that is best medical practice, you know, and now we're even legislating them out of existence. There's been a progression, a step, uh stepping up of increasing levels of control and suppression. The ga the the uh the main ulterior motive here is control. You're controlling people's bodies, you're controlling their identities, you're controlling families. You have power and control over your constituents, and thereby you can uh do whatever you want then. This obsession with transgenderism and an anti-work movement is not driven by the people. Polling shows that still a vast majority of the American population uh uh they they um are not on board with this anti-trans movement, you know. But but with the ramping up and the and the severe you know, increasing laws and increasing um attention that has been placed on it by the Trump administration, um, this only shows that this is driven by the Trump administration, not by responding to the community's outcries. This whole anti-work movement is a hundred percent only about how far the Trump administration is willing to go to stay in power. It's evil, it's malevolent, and I uh uh despair for the transgender people who are falling victim to this. Uh it's a despicable movement, and um, as I said, it won't stop at the trans people, it'll keep going, this this this machine of suppression and control. So, yeah, I think that as such, um, so the the video that I uh was watching came off channel 100. Um hang on, what's the name of the channel? Sorry, uh Channel 100 News with EV. You should check out her YouTube channel, it's um really thoughtful and very um uh yeah, what would I say, very well written um and and very um uh very thorough yet um uh coverage of of most topics that she talks about. Uh and I just I wanted to um just yeah, really move through that video that she did today, uh not to plagiarize, um, but just to r reflect on everything that she had to say because I think it's so very true. There's uh dangerous things happening in America and um you know uh th the this machinery of the Trump m administration is moving forward uh whilst brainwashing a lot of Americans into voting for a horrible dystopian future. And I just hope that they'll one day wake up and um stop drinking the Kool-Aid.