Naomi Klein wrote:
"As the transnational extreme right — from Giorgia Meloni to Jair Bolsonaro — landed on anti-trans fearmongering as a powerful adhesive to bind together its Frankenstein of “inclusive nationalism,” many of the same people in the wellness world who railed against the unnaturalness of Covid vaccines have begun to speak more openly about the supposed naturalness of the gender binary, and of traditional family roles. Far from the unlikely bedfellows they first seemed to be, large parts of the modern wellness industry are proving to be all too compatible with far-right notions of natural hierarchies, genetic superiority, and disposable people."
— Naomi Klein. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
More from Naomi Klein in Doppelganger:
[Speaking of France, in May 2024, over 10,000 people protested anti-trans legislation.]"Similar attempts at diversifying the hard-right base can be seen in Australia and France. These movements are still built around hate and division — on scapegoating migrants; on pathologizing trans youth; on bashing teachers trying to support these students or tell a truer story of their nations’ past; and on scaremongering about communists and Islamists. “Inclusive nationalism” just means that they have found some new blocs of voters who are also looking for scapegoats, and not all of them are white, or male.
The endgame is not hidden. Bannon tells his posse that they are going to “run this country for one hundred years, [for] every ethnicity, every color, every race, every religion — that’s an inclusive nationalism.”
And Klein again:
"As recently as 2020, Wolf had strongly pushed back against the attacks on trans rights by some feminists of her generation, hinting they had become tools of the right. Now she was making common cause with the very women who linked all-gender bathrooms with sexual assault. The results of this 'huge victory' showed, she said, the 'gigantic plutonium weapon” represented by “suburban women who will do anything for their children' — parents who had become aware that 'there are dark forces arrayed at their kids ... all kinds of weird abuse of children going on.'"
Both of these tweets are referenced in "GOP Congressmen All But Declare War After Trump Indictment", Matt Shuham, HuffPost, June 9, 2023
In the replies, another person recommends "the chapter "Antifascism through the Lens of Transgender Identity" by Emily Gorcenski in ¡No pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis."
“The GOP’s obsessive focus on punishing trans people is, in every way, a feminist issue — it arises from fascism’s predictable and eternal obsession with white fertility and ensuring “traditional,” patriarchal gender roles.“ Read this story from Jude Ellison S. Doyle on Medium (friend link)
"It’s definitely been getting worse. A lot of people who have been out since the '70s and '80s are saying that this is an unprecedented level of public hate. Even if there's been progress around rights for a lot of people, there's a whole lot more hostility."
— Florence Ashley, interviewed by OpenMind, April 2024
See also: "This Novel Imagines Fascism in the 1930s USA". It's a 4-minute read on Medium.
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