This may be a bit clueless of me, but I feel like it only crystallized for me a few weeks ago just how much worse things had gotten in American media over the last year

Like, all the concern trolling and scrupulous "neutrality" on whether trans people have a right to fucking exist at all... there's a direct line between that and laws designed to (in the words of a Daily Wire host this week) "Ban transgenderism entirely". Straight up genocidal shit, the quiet part can now be said out loud