Deliberately and dangerously misleading framing. What this story actually says is that the FBI will classify trans-identified suspects as "a subset of the Bureau's new threat category, "Nihilistic Violent Extremists." Framing it as a "new war on trans people" is analogous to the media reporting the FBI creating a category for "violent white supremacists" by reporting that the FBI is "labelling white people as extremists." image View quoted note →
Being forced by the most annoying teacher in your school to let a boy use the girls room is more disturbingly Orwellian than anything the vast majority of people over the age of 25 have experienced. It's happened to tens of millions young people under 21. Far from being an abstract culture war that nobody cares about, it's perhaps the most palpable experience of despotic authority that most young people have undergone in their lives. View quoted note →