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How, exactly, is 30% of the population openly supporting a ban on gay marriage a recent backlash against trans kinds? And, again, why should we expect that all the homophobes stopped being homophobic after a supreme court case they were livid about?
What tolerance? You talk like there was some sort of settlement where homophobes agreed to tolerate gay people rather fighting it every step of the way.
Sorry, I couldn't check all the links in depth before I went, and was just checking the timestamps of the first few articles and noting they were all from the current or last year.
The poll you linked is literally showing more people than ever before are accepting of gay marriage, how the hell is that showing it "hasn't stopped them from pursuing anti-homosexual policy and rhetoric"?! The trend for intolerance is in steady decline.
As to the trans kids - the laws against drag, not pushing queer theory in schools, etc., are clearly correlated with recent push for transing kids and indoctrinating them into weird pomo theories.
Check your own poll? Do you see it getting better or worse?
That's the point.
The person I responded proposed that liberals had taken up the banner of trans rights because they'd run out of material to paint conservative as bigots with. I noted that this doesn't comport with material reality (and is comically uncharitable besides, though they at least noted that), as there are still a lot of politically motivated homophobes floating around in the GOP. If half your voters want to ban gay marriage and half your voters don't care about it, you are operationally an anti-gay marriage party. And that is being reductive, looking only at the dimension of gay marriage being legal and not the broader matter of social legitimacy (see: conservative efforts to push acknowledgment of homosexuality out of public schools under paper-thin veneers).
I see it getting better because homophobes are increasingly marginalized and disempowered. The "years of tolerance" were 7-8 years in which the homophobes did not evaporate and in fact continued to oppose gay rights.
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