Serious question - why is the far right obsessed with gender definitions?

[Ted King]

anonymouse1 wrote:
In addition to all the good points made previously, I see a couple of things (which overlap with the previous points):

1. There are some people/groups who are very susceptible to out-group hatred. It's a group-bonding experience for them.

2. Some people are anxious/scared. This gives them something concrete to be scared about, which is paradoxically calming--it's no longer free-floating anxiety/fear.

3. There are entrepreneurs of fear, like DeSantis, who want to take advantage of 1 and 2.

4. If you haven't been exposed to that type of stuff until you're and adult, you may have some unconscious prejudices.

That is a pretty good list. I would add that "fundamentalist" religion plays a big role in 1. and 2. and also that religion gives those "in- groups" a moral pretext to ignore science. For example, it gives a moral pretext to say that g-ender d-ysphoria is wrong because it isn't "natural" even though the scientific evidence is that people with g-ender d-ysphoria come by it naturally, not by nurture or choice.

Edit: I wish there was a way to get the forum filter to quit treating "g-ender d-sysphora" as though it was a "bad" phrase. It kind of pisses me off.