It's not like there's a compromise where right wing freaks lay off social transitioning in return or quit screaming about minors transitioning in general. What pisses me off so much is capitulation on the sports issue wins liberals nothing. It doesn't actually protect people, it really just ratchet effects the issue in the worst way possible.

Exactly. And this isn't new, either. We've seen this play out over and over again during the last years. Take a look at puberty blockers, for example - it's not as if a majority of trans kids goes "i want to get on puberty blockers" as their first choice when they want to medically transition, they usually want to go on HRT so they can go through the right puberty at the same time everybody else in their class goes through their puberty. Puberty blockers were a compromise. And now that compromise is a battleground and it's banned in a ton of places already and wherever that is the case they are immediately moving on and escalating. They're banning that trans kids can socially transition in school, starting with sports and then moving on to bathrooms and then to forcing teachers to out trans kids to their parents and then to making it illegal to use their names and pronouns at all. And then they expand all of this to adults. This is always about goosestepping to a point were all medical and social transitioning is illegal.

It's always the same playbook because this is an orchestrated campaign that gets repeated over and over again in every state that gives in to this. We have seen this for years. You can look all of it up on Errin in the Morn who has ceaselessly chronicled this in excruciating detail. With the people we're up against, it's always "give them an inch and they'll take a mile". They are always boiling a frog.