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I think it’s because they’re useful in several ways to the regime.
As symbols, they can serve as useful tools of the elite trying to convince other people to join the Atlantic Empire. After all, if we can tolerate transpeople, accepting Muslims, Buddhists and so on isn’t an issue. You can be free to do anything, and we aren’t going to stop you. Hell, we’ll force it including forcing companies to hire you and cater to you.
As a bloc, they are fanatic defenders of the elite, because the elite are allowing them to punch far above their weight. If the Atlantic Empire falls, they’re toast, as no other potential elites (MAGA, BRIC, Islamic, or Christian National) will give them the same deal. In fact, absent a strong champion, they probably can’t gain enough power to defend themselves, and aren’t good workers in most situations.
As a distraction, they allow the regime to do as it pleases in other spheres of control. As long as we’re talking about trans people reading books to kids, Dylan Mulvaney, and pro-trans propaganda in schools, the ability for the government to quietly sneak in and change other things, to take control over privacy and so on is high.
You don't even need a "distraction for the elites": the trans acceptance movement is not a distraction for the coup, it is the coup.
Just think about what it does to parental rights if not affirming some utterly unfalsifiable religious belief with serious potential health consequences can lead to the removal of your child or the usurpation of your role as parent by some overeducated government employee with a graduate degree.
I see that point as well.
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