Why are conservatives obsessed with gender transition surgery for minors when it's an insignificant issue?

There are about 40 million adolescents in the U.S. Here’s what they deal with:

Anxiety: 12,000,000 (30%)

Obesity: 6,800,000 (17%)

Sexually Victimized: 6,400,000 (16%)

Severe Major Depression: 6,000,000 (15%)

Living in Poverty: 5,200,000 (13%)

Substance Abuse: 2,000,000 (5%)

Suicide: 5,000/yr (.01%)

Cancer Diagnosis: 5500 (.013%)

Killed by Firearms: 5000 (.01%)

Incarcerated: 2500 (.006%)

Have Gender Transition Surgery: 300 (.00075%)

But please, explain how conservatives care so much about children that they focus on the issue that affects the smallest number of them.

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BohemianBabe · M

Partly it's projection, since the Right wants it to be easier to get away with raping kids. But it's also that a big part of Fascism is biological essentialism as a way to oppress women. Fascists are always arguing that the reason women shouldn't have rights is because society can only flourish if each gender is living by traditional gender roles. However, if we have gender non-conformity in large numbers and society is still doing well, then the point is debunked, which makes it harder to oppress women. So the Right has to oppress queer people as much as possible. They don't want the public knowing that gender is fluid, gender roles are constructed.
And of course, trans panic is a good way to distract from economic issues, which the Right can't win elections on.

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