Look, I know you think your religion
Yeah, piss off. I know that you need that my arguments be unable to stand without a religious basis, but I strictly make arguments independent of religion and focusing on the practical results because I'm aware enough to realize that if the only problem that I have with something in society is that it doesn't agree with my religious values, then that's something I need to suck up.
Moreover, the idea that, for example, to stop kids from being given hormones and told they're the opposite of whatever sex they were born as we have to go back to the values of pre-1960s America
Nobody proffered this idea. It's a convenient strawman you fashioned
ex nihilo so you could propose that a strictly bounded set of societal issues unmoored from their proper context are themselves the problems that need to be grappled with.
You can do these things because parents by and large do not want their kids "transitioning" to anything other than a well-paying career after they finish school.
I've talked with devout Christians who have said that they would "very begrudgingly" allow even their child to be trans if it meant that they didn't kill themselves because "maybe God will reach them at some later point". They could not get I was concerned with the fact that they were mutilating themselves in the process-- I went back and forth with a
doctor who was a Christian who insisted that SRS wasn't functionally mutilation, who knew nothing about the aftercare and that
acktually trans women had functional vaginas because they had functional clitorises.
I don't think you don't know what you're coming up against. These are people who came from countries that couldn't even understand what homosexuality is. You think parents largely don't want their kids transitioning, but what they want more than that is to hold the positions seen as the ultimate in compassion-- the mothers especially. They've already largely cowed to the pressure and they cope using declarations of prayer that they'll likely never do while the world around them rots and they jeer about how messed up everything is in their friend circles.
And it's largely because they think the start and end of the issue is that Johnny wants to be Jenny.
You can fight against the unfairness of the title IX kangaroo courts by advocating for the same "innocent until proven guilty" legal principle that the country was founded upon.
Sidelining the reality that the issue is deeper than those kangaroo courts, you need to get more visceral than that. We've been making special exceptions for sexual offenses from time immemorial.
You can push back against drag queens being anywhere near children because parents do not want their children being raped.
Most people don't connect drag with pedophilia.
You want real populists? Well too fucking bad, they all get shot. And good luck with the atmosphere nowadays. If they're white, forget it. If they're black, they're an uncle tom.
Kind of sounds like black populists have a better fighting chance.