I think that at some level they understand how easily their own views are shaped by the people around them and by the media they consume. So they assume everyone is like that and that if you’re gay or trans it means you’ve been manipulated into it by external forces. It’s weird to me to imagine being so malleable to social pressure that you would undergo trans surgery because of it, but conservatives really think that’s what’s going on and it’s because they are that malleable to social pressure.
I think that at some level they understand how easily their own views are shaped by the people around them and by the media they consume. So they assume everyone is like that and that if you’re gay or trans it means you’ve been manipulated into it by external forces. It’s weird to me to imagine being so malleable to social pressure that you would undergo trans surgery because of it, but conservatives really think that’s what’s going on and it’s because they are that malleable to social pressure.