Are conservatives mad about trans people or they just mad they get walk around out of the closet while they have to leave the white sheets at home?

I don’t think they really care THAT much about them, but you have to remember that it’s been turned into yet another conswervative “save the children” bullshit. They think liberals are pushing gender change drugs and surgeries onto children, and they have really shown how they don’t think children’s ideas about who they are matter one bit. Tyrant father is their whole model. Kids don’t decide shit. Kids become who they are told to, not who they think they are. Fairyboy feelings of being a girl are to be beaten out! Remember these are the same people who push “gay conversion therapy.”

Bigotry leads to more bigotry. If it wasn't trans folk, it would be Mexicans. Oh wait, it's both, right? ... The reasons don't matter to them. All they want is hate and harm, and that's what they live.

I think they fear the unknown because their politicians and pastors link the unknown to SCARY BIBLICAL SINS or whatever. Politicians don't care, they're just using trans folk as a satanic panic scape goat. It's not that they have to leave the sheets at home as much as the same simple minded fear and hatred is easily exploited.

It's easily demonstrable when they thought they were losing public opinion on gay and trans rights they were LITERALLY boogiemanning about furries shitting in sandboxes provided by schools...

Getting close to filtering this community with all the stupid American-centric political "questions"

Truly and harrowingly sadly:

Conservative voters hate trans people simply because they're told to

Conservative politicians tell their voters to hate trans people because it distracts the voters whilst the politician robs them (of their rights, their potential or simply their actual fucking money)

It's currently trans people because the previous victim roster of gay dudes and middle eastern people just isn't cutting it any more.

Conservatives generally don't give a shit about trans people. They don't hate them, but neither do they care about trans issues. If an issue doesn't directly affect a conservative, that issue doesn't exist. We've seen this attitude 1,000 times.

Look at pre-election polling for an example. The majority of their opinions were between, "Don't care." and "Stop with this trans hate bullshit. The attack ads are mean and hurting our chances." (All I'm finding are post-election articles ATM.)

It's conservative politicians that are trying to whip up hate. They need an "other" to focus the people's ire. And that's a whole nother write up.

Anecdotally, I've not once heard, or overheard, a single word against trans people IRL. And I am neck deep in conservatives around here, and they're plenty loud.

Conservative politicians always need someone or something different to blame for made up reasons. While the right has historically berated LGBT, they will bring one specific issue or group into focus as another "issue" becomes boring.

They identify something as problem, tell people that the root of all of their problems is that something. If I blame my issues on something else and then tell people I am their savior and the only person that can fix that problem, I could end up looking like a hero when I do absolutely nothing about it.

Also, stupid people in large groups are easy to manipulate. If one or two people start getting mad about something, the whole group will latch on to that emotion. A couple of key words or chants are of use too! If you have ever seen a trump rally, he just says a few key words to piss people off (Mexicans, immigrants, tans, libruls, etc..) and whatever else he says after that is irrelevant.

Most importantly, the targets of hate need to be vulnerable but portrayed as extremely evil.

If you browse through conservative media, notice they rarely reference anything about policy or improving the lives of people. If they do, it's directly tied to blaming others for a problem. (Left media can be just as bad, but are nowhere near the machine of bigotry that right media is.)

I could go on for a while, but you should get the idea.

Edit: Oh, if you dehumanize and generalize a group ('the jews', 'the gays', 'the whatever's), anything you say or do is not perceived internally as racism or bigotry: It's 'acting in the best interests of your country'.

While I have blocked all the conservative communities here, just read through their posts one or twice. Almost all of their articles are hate politics. Honestly, I have blocked almost all political news on Lemmy since most of it is just re-hashed emotional trigger subjects.

All you have to ask is “ Are conservatives mad?” And the answer is always yes.

Check #5, #7, and, of course, #12:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism

I believe it is at least partially the same hatred for cosmetic surgery, just amped up because it's more impactful and they don't understand why being trans would make a difference.

It was socially acceptable to make fun of "fake" people for years. Everyone knew what a Botox face looked like. Celebrities are ridiculed for not ageing gracefully and clinging to an image with 21 surgeries a year. And now these people are changing their entire gender and pointing at these people for being fake is supposedly wrong? Because it's "necessary", the same as the cosmetic freaks claimed? Why should it?

In their mind, trans people just need a reality check the same way they dealt with cosmetic surgery addicts, but society seems to protect and pamper them instead of pointing out that they are loved in their natural look. And instead of trying to understand, they double down on what they've done for years. Sunk cost.

I do not believe conservatives are mad at or hate transexuals

I do believe, however, Conservatives don't really care what you do on your own. Most disagree with transexuals in general, but most also aren't interested in bossing you around.

I believe your question presumes wrongly that conservatives are spending their days obsessively looking for ways to control or cause either direct or indirect harm to you. They're not.

The only things they are not really okay with and won't allow you to do is pushing your views on them.

I understand they will be okay if you don't ask them to change the facts on your birth certificate (yes, conservatives see what is in there as facts, you can disagree, but that's how they see it)

I believe conservatives will be mostly okay if you don't try to pass laws that punish them for not getting on board with your chosen views.

Same as well with using the state apparatus, taxpayer money, to use public schools to push your views.

They would probably be okay with consenting adults being free to dress in whatever way they want and do whatever they want to their own bodies.

However they would be also expecting to not be compelled in any way whatsoever to play along.

Again, that would mean no laws would be made to compel people to use pronouns or any other language they believe to be untrue.

Most surely, they would like that, In the same vein as dressing up differently doesn't give you access to opposite sex bathrooms, getting surgical procedures done on yourself wouldn’t also give you access to the bathrooms of the opposite sex.

Very probably, In an ideal conservative world, transition surgery would be categorized as an elective cosmetic surgery, and advertised as such.