This is a noble belief. It’s just not where the world is right now. Most people don’t want to be educated. They want their own bias confirmed. We live in a time when the work of scientists and academics carry less weight then the transphobic rhetoric of a former YA author who has chosen to use the “threat to the a safety of women” lie as her whole personality these days.
Support centers and positive media visibility for trans people are literally being banned in many parts of the world. In 2025, in the United States, there have been 122 anti-trans bills PASSED with 98 still expected to be voted on by year’s end. What was once the last bastion of civil rights protection, The Supreme Court, has been completely corrupted, actively rolling back civil rights in direct opposition to the the consensus opinions of the majority of the country. So they can’t be relied on to stop any anti-trans legislation.
There is simply too much disinformation and convincing AI to combat with a few positive portrayals of trans people in sympathetic media. The Right Wing will never even see it and any attempt to add it to something they may consume will be meet with labeling it as “woke” , which is anathema to advertisers.
The problem is not one that will only effects trans people. Just yesterday I saw a video of a black woman on a cruise ship having a meltdown because they seemingly wouldn’t take her EBT card for some burgers. If you have any critical thinking skills then you would know that’s off. Of course, it was AI but it had been shared and reposted thousands of times with comments like “black fatigue is real”, “EBT Queens are awful”, and “Working Americans can’t afford healthcare and food but she’s on welfare and can afford a cruise because we pay for it.” Going back to the creators page it has dozens of AI generated videos of black women arguing with store, ice cream shop, and coffee shop clerks about not taking EBT. All fake. All created to further the debunked “Welfare Queen” narrative that Right Wing started under Reagan. You can bet of those thousands of reposts less than 100 were removed once they knew it was fake.
The point is that while the bigotry is still rooted in misinformation, ignorance, and regressive ideas the the means of spreading those lies has become much quicker, believable, and insidiously targeted.
No marginalized group is going to be safe by trying to be “one of the good ones” and instead of blaming them, if we aren’t part of the group currently under attack, we need to support them because the same tactics will be used when they come for us.
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