Whipping Girl

There is a book by that name by Julia Serano, was she ahead of her time? Goodreads say the 2007 book is about,

A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist. Serano shares her experiences and observations—both pre- and post-transition—to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our societal attitudes toward trans women, as well as gender and sexuality as a whole.

Was she correct? Because we are sure getting whipped with hatred from the right.

America Is Being Consumed by a Moral Panic Over Trans People
New York Times
Opinion by Farhad Manjoo
September 1, 2022


In Utah last year, the parents of two girls who’d placed second and third during a state-level sporting event got suspicious about the girl who’d handily won first place: Had she always been a girl?

At the time, Utah had not yet passed a law barring transgender athletes from participating in school sports under their gender identity. Still, officials received complaints from parents about athletes who didn’t “look feminine enough,” David Spatafore, the legislative representative of the Utah High School Activities Association, recently testified. Officials were only too happy to investigate; in the case of the student who won first place, school administrators tracked down her academic records without informing her or her parents. “The school went back to kindergarten,” Spatafore testified. “And she’d always been a female.”

That is what the Republican party is orchestrating, hate against us looking for Bogeymen under every bed.

This is what a moral panic looks like. Unhinged hysteria sows fear and suspicion by inflating unusual ideas and lifestyles into social and political emergencies. Transgender people have long aroused such panic. Have you mustered the courage to enter a public restroom since the great transgender bathroom scare of the mid-2010s? But in the past couple of years, the fears have reached a fever pitch. And in the run-up to the midterms, trans people — trans young people, especially — have become a hysterical obsession of the right.

The right-wing media pundits are calling for our blood, they are whipping up people to fear us and the Democrats who are open and accepting of all and not bigoted like the Republicans.

This overt fearmongering has become the latest right-wing phenomenon. Transgender issues are a red-meat staple on Fox News and among fringe lawmakers like Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-QAnon), who has proposed a federal ban on transition-related care for minors. But anxiety about trans issues is a concern of not just the far right. Stories about how trans people are changing American life — how their sensibilities “capture” medical organizations and other institutions, how they’re pushing for changes in language, how they’ve engendered a fragile intellectual atmosphere where one wrong opinion can get you canceled — have become a mainstay of discussion.

All this over us who only make up around 0.5%, that’s right all this hate us! In Connecticut there are over 100,000 high school athletes and we don’t know how many trans athletes there are, CIAC estimates that there are less than a dozen trans athletes in the state.

The debate over transgender participation in sports often similarly elides the rarity of the issue. Stories often focus on a handful of athletes, many of them on the swimmer Lia Thomas. That’s because there just aren’t that many others. The Utah official testified that only about seven transgender athletes had asked to participate in high school sports statewide last year. When Florida’s House voted on a trans athlete ban — the bill, the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, was later signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis — the Orlando Sentinel sports columnist Mike Bianchi wrote: “I’ve been covering collegiate sports in this state for 30 years, and I’ve never covered nor known a sports journalist who covered a transgender athlete competing in girls’ or women’s sports in this state.” A colleague of his had never heard of such a case in high school sports, either.

They make up lies, and they blow it way out of proportion to create fear and hate of us.

So it’s worth remembering some stark facts whenever you hear that trans issues are somehow taking over civic life: There are relatively few trans people in America. Many of the controversies you hear about them are unlikely to directly affect the lives of the vast majority of nontrans Americans. Trans people still wield astonishingly little power over anything. They still face tremendous difficulties and disadvantages across many areas of life. And mainstream acceptance and equality of transgender people is hardly the certainty that is often portrayed in punditry.

Ask yourself this question, why is the might and power of the United State’s largest political party attacking such a small minority? Why are they putting fear into the lives of trans children? Hate crimes against us are skyrocketing.

Why are they demonizing us?

Why would you want to vote for a party like that unless you also support the hate.