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After the makers of Bud Light beer partnered with trans TikTok “influencer” Dylan Mulvaney to promote their product to a presumably young, hip market niche, the cultural right reacted. Boycotts rarely work long term, and Anheuser-Busch says it has used various “influencers” to market its beer. Nevertheless, the brouhaha brings to light what Mulvaney is apparently influencing through Tiktok, and it looks a lot like promoting the transing of gender nonconforming gay boys. Andrew Sullivan takes a look.

And for those interested in the “brouhaha”:

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More TQ+ Community members complaining about the misgendering and even saying it was logical for them to start turning violent…
They WANT violence. They’ve been doing it daily for some time & always blame the victims.

Just proving this is a total lack of mental healthcare. pic.twitter.com/OUN859FA4y

— Brian 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 (@Psy_Brian) March 27, 2023

I refuse to blame an entire community or ideological movement for the heinous actions of an individual. It’s demagogic, divisive, and unfair. And it’s precisely what far too many on the Left do, instantly, whenever an atrocity occurs, irrespective of the facts. Toxic.

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) March 28, 2023

Added: I respect Guy Benson’s advice to be cautious about widespread blame, but I also don’t think we should ignore that the shooting happened amid calls by activists for action to stop “genocide” against trans people, including the recently enacted Tennessee law banning puberty blockers and transition surgery for minors.

More: Twitter is now blocking tweets showing trans activists’ calls for violence, including gun violence. While understandable, this move obscures how extreme some of these activists are.

We watched trans activists promise a “Day of Vengeance” to stop “violence” and “genocide” against the trans community.

This shooter targeted a church and Christian school on Trans Awareness Week, immediately after legislation passed that activists call ‘genocidal.’

— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) March 28, 2023

This kind of rhetoric is so common it’s not longer shocking (but should be):

If they would have succeeded in pulling @ThePosieParker to the ground do you really think they would have stopped? #LetWomenSpeakAuckland pic.twitter.com/c5YRuo6X0l

— Ani O’Brien (@aniobrien) March 26, 2023

I don’t like having to share posts like these but we can’t pretend that these messages aren’t being spread by extremists.

Added: Shaking my head over this captured tweet from Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs’ press secretary, posted just hours after the shooting (original removed by Twitter, understandably). Added: Press Secretary Josselyn Berry resigned on Wednesday, two days after the shooting. Why wasn’t she fired, or at least suspended, immediately after her vile post went up?

And via Log Cabin Republicans:

Still more.

Newspeak watch: "gender expansive youth". It means gay boys and girls being prepped for trans identity. https://t.co/4fycQOQNoq

— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) March 27, 2023

Organizations that were once at the forefront of the movement for gay and lesbian rights and social inclusion have morphed into something very different, following the achievement of legal equality for gays and lesbians, and for transgender people. In keeping with fashionable progressive-left trends, they’re now onboard with the war on the gender binary.

“Lifesaving gender affirmating care” https://t.co/5fChmgcm8H

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 1, 2023

More on the response to the campaign against the New York Times by GLAAD, Human Rights Campaign, and others for (1) reporting on the medical transitioning of minors and including the critical views of doctors and detransitioners, and (2) running an op-ed defending J.K. Rowling for casting a critical eye on requiring that transmen, including men who simply present as women, be granted access to women-only spaces.

It still amazes, though probably it shouldn’t, how woke-progressive LGBTQ+ advocates have embraced medicalized conversion therapy for gay and lesbian kids who are gender nonconforming — and how they think their support for these procedures makes them morally superior, instead of morally monstrous.

When progressive parents lead gender-nonconforming kids to transition. https://t.co/RXBznjTlW6

— CultureWatch (@IndeGayForum) February 6, 2023

More from this mom on YouTube, here: “I Transitioned My Child – I Regret It“.

The simple answer is that they redefined divergence from gendered stereotypes as transgender identity — there is no answer to the question “what and who is trans?” that does not resolve to this proposition https://t.co/TyOYa5xE4l pic.twitter.com/YWvd0gBkWh

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) February 7, 2023

And below, what LGBTQ+ activists don’t want gay people to understand:

Trans activists (some) have been a disaster for the reputation of the LGBT community. The pew numbers for 2022 will be stunning.

Not just in the US.

When gay activists in other countries push for things like marriage, they now get shown vids of drag queens sexualizing children

— Jeffrey Towson 陶迅 (@JeffreyTowson) January 24, 2023

Is there anything that woke-academic “queer studies” doesn’t corrupt?

2./ You can savour the full Dr Strangelove vibe here. Harvie thinks Gender Self ID (which erases women’s single sex spaces, undermines gay rights and endangers the mental health of children) is just the start. He wants to go further. You bet he does….
https://t.co/C1ZkD8JqEd

— Malcolm Clark (@TwisterFilm) January 17, 2023

Saying that predators will take advantage of a bill meant to help trans people is *not* the same as saying trans people are predators.

Why is this simple point impossible for some people to understand? At this point it has to be intentional.

— James Winbeck (@InMc80820675) January 17, 2023

Relatedly, here in the U.S.:

Violent extremist group SoCal Antifa is organizing a direct action against those expressing support for the teen girl who spoke publicly about her experience with a naked man in the women’s locker room at a YMCA in Santee, San Diego County. https://t.co/EO7voyb3Ie pic.twitter.com/DBFH3iUxvo

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) January 17, 2023