Opinion | Republicans Find a Cruel New Culture War: Transgender Rights - The New York Times

... Republicans' response to their party's political failures at the ballot box in 2018 and 2020 is to find an issue that they believe paints Democrats as convention-smashing libertines and themselves as the defenders of innocent children and a moral order. It's to name monsters out there and take up torches against them. The issue is trans equality. The monsters are trans people...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/opinion/sunday/transgender-rights-republicans-arkansas.html