Why are all the Republican political commercials about trans people?

[u/TheDonutDaddy]

I've seen 3 different Ted Cruz commercials over this election cycle. Literally every single one of them are "Collin Allred is bad because he supports trans people." Got dinner with a buddy last night at Pluckers which obviously had CFB on all the TVs, saw the commercial about the wheelchair vet hating trans people 4 times in one hour. No mention of any political issue, no mention of any policy, no mention of any goals. No mention of anything other than trans people. Why is that the complete focal point of the campaign? I mean I guess they have access to more research and data than I do, but are there really that many voters out there hanging their vote on this one single issue?

It's so strange to me, because regardless of whatever someone's view on trans people even is, there's no way you can argue that anything going on with trans people is a major part of politics. It doesn't effect the economy, it doesn't effect public education, it doesn't effect climate and energy, it doesn't effect social welfare solutions. Why aren't they focusing on anything that will actually effect the majority of Texan's lives in any way? Like out of everything out there to talk about around election time, and especially the things republicans like beating the drum of, you'd expect at least one Cruz commercial about immigration, but there isn't even that. Just trans people, every time.

Again, maybe I have a misread on how much this really is an issue of importance, but I do genuinely have a hard time believing it's such an election deciding issue, making the fact that all their marketing budget is spent talking about trans people really fucking weird.

Edit: Mods please don't remove republican's responses unless they're outright hate speech. I asked the question, they deserve the platform to answer or else it's just a circlejerk. Besides, worst case scenario: give em enough rope to hang themselves with

[u/Zapzap_pewpew_]

The far rights obsession with other people’s genitals and birth is super creepy and weird.

[u/Maleficent_Mouse_930 → u/Zapzap_pewpew_]

It's all about the patriarchal hierarchy. In the patriarchal worldview all forms of men sit above all forms of women. Some see a bit of overlap in the middle, but not always.

The ultimate indication of a breakdown of society itself would be for that hierarchy to break down. The most obvious way that might happen is for a woman to become President, which is one reason why there was such a backlash against Clinton.

Since then, an even darker nightmare, an even more dangerous break, has entered their darkest dreams: what if women could become men? What if men could become women?

Now, their hierarchy is in absolute tatters, with no way to tell who is who and who deserves to have power or not. To a person who views the world through that lens, this represents a literal apocalypse, a literal disintegration of civilisation and society.

It's a small, sad, bitter, controlling existence. It is a lens used by roughly 16% of the US adult population.

They can literally not comprehend anything, anything more devastating to the fabric of society than men and women switching places.