[Animats]

The "accept our shaky premise or else" crowd is annoying. The intimidation has backfired. The first big public controversy for transgender bathroom rights was in 2016. right before the US presidential election,[1] and may have pushed Trump over the top and into the White House.

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/05/timeline-bath...

[polotics]

A lot of the time when I see inflamed rethoric about "Woke" things on the web, I strongly suspect this is the work of a skilled provocateur, making sure anyone who could be radicalized into strongly opposing the presented opinions is reinforced into clear calls to action, in the case of 2016, 2020, 2024(?): """vote for Trump, because very clearly and very explicitly the Wokes want to take away your freedom"""