Gender-hysteria may be the most significant impact on American political life that Ron DeSantis ever has.

“Lady Ballers” was filmed this summer, back when transgender people were still the all-consuming obsession of the right.

The Republican primary got weird this week as Ron DeSantis of Florida accused Trump of not hating queer people enough in a video that angered everyone from Log Cabin Republicans to the creators of Peaky Blinders.

Trump’s mention of transgender “insanity” drew a standing ovation, but it’s what came afterwards that revealed the true nature of the GOP’s attacks on the trans community.

The Republican governor of Florida, who has made attacks on the trans and LGBTQ+ communty his signature issue, is doing terribly in national polls.

David Byler writes in the Washington Post Opinion section that trans rights are growing less popular, putting a bland face on an escalating strategy of fear-mongering and discriminatory law.

The former Vice President is buying ads in Iowa promoting anti-trans hysteria as he mulls a presidential run, joining Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump in a shadow primary to establish their transphobic bona-fides.

Attacks on trans people seem poised to enter the liminal space in American politics where a thing is absolutely horrific and beyond the pale when Donald Trump does it, and at no other time.

The fascist former president has released a speech describing a slate of policies he would pursue if he returned to the presidency that would target trans people and trans youth.

A diminished Trump rails half-heartedly against trans people as he tries to regain his position as the leader of the fascist movement in the Republican Party.