The anti-trans panic builds wide-ranging suspicion of teachers, who are cast as the villains in a baroque drama.
Kay Gabriel
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October 25, 2023
The Anti-Trans Panic and the Crusade Against Teachers
The goal is to crumble popular support for public education.
An organic crisis collided with a conjunctural crisis, and only the political right had both the sense and the power to take advantage of it. Now the conspiracist structure of feeling—the recognition of one’s own relative disfranchisement, combined with a resentment toward the tremendous power and resources that a small class wields exclusively over everyone else—textures our political reality thoroughly, and not just for the right’s ideological foot soldiers.
