i kind of really hate the framing of “culture war” to describe the political class’ transphobia and i hate how ubiquitous it is to call it that. almost as much as i hate the framing of it as a “distraction” or “wedge issue” or whatever euphemistic term ppl wanna use to frame reaction to destabilization or even just reformulation of the sexgender system as just an opportunistic method of gaining political power. would it kill ppl to acknowledge that transphobia and transmisogyny are real ideologies that serve actual purposes in maintaining the integrity of the family institution as the fundamental unit of class society and its constituent gendered gears, and that when reactionaries say they want to wipe us out of existence to defend the integrity of the family and society, they are not lying or being irrational or even misrepresenting the situation, they are just directly and honestly describing their goals. when “progressive” liberals decry this as slander, they are just projecting as per their own duplicity of wanting to maintain gendered class society via recuperating deviants into it as semi-integrated underclasses. from that weaselly perspective, calling this a “culture war” makes sense; to them it is a war of just deciding the best way to maintain cisheteropatriarchy. at least the reactionaries are honest about their desire to subjugate us