Or I should specify recreate.
During the Witchcraft Era, conservatives empowered themselves to look for "The Devil's Marks" on the naked bodies of women, almost always to be found on or inside the genitals of women. Women were also interrogated about their sex dreams and copulation. Modern Republicans have never shaken their Witchfinder General beginnings.
These days, Gay Panic is no longer a strong enough tonic to motivate the conservative outrage machine. Republicans transitioned to demonization, legal and physical violence towards Trans Persons. Like, all fascist stalking horses, Republicans couch their violence to transpersons in the cloak of Won't Someone Think of the Children! Because they know they can pass their agenda of hatred and intolerance by lying to Normie America and then ignore complaints while they brutally repress, incarcerate and kill those they've targeted. In this case, the Trans Community.
We've seen this perverted dynamic play out in Virginia with Reactionary villain Greg Younkin and with on-line conservatives like Matt Walsh that want to set up cameras in every nook and cranny in Public schools to spy on your children and create vast databases of child porn for conservatives to consume daily, a sort of giant Predatory Pedophile Panopticon.
In the two largest rightwing states in America, Texas and Florida, Republican Governors, Attorneys General, and Senators are empowering themselves and others to become Official Panty Sniffers and genital inspectors. Using the awesome power of government, the sole legal authority of force, Republicans want juveniles genitals too be regularly inspected and fines and prison to be threatened to anyone who refuses to let conservatives inspect children's genitals.
In Florida, the Republican Legislature passed the so-called #DontSayGay Bill which requires at risk children to be outed and that Florida Republicans get to determine what is best for the child. Ron DeathSantis is expected to take time out from his busy schedule of murdering old people in Florida to sign the bill so that parents will know what children in their school should be targeted for harassment and bullying.
In Texas, despicable Greg Abbott aided by convicted felon Ken Paxton saw the Florida Bill and decided they should push an immoral, unlawful bill akin to the Spanish Inquisition. Like the Anti-abortion Law, Texas seeks to empower bounty hunters to turn in parents of Trans youths and then use the power of the child protection laws to kidnap and brutalize the children. Once the Government of Texas has possession of a trans youth they will doubtlessly chemically and physically force the child into conformity.
Clearly, Republicans post 2020 see political power stemming from their constant attacks on Schools, teachers, and the most at-risk marginal children. Florida Senator Rick Scott released an 11 point plan which included eliminating the Department of Education, so States could go back to Segregation Era education without worrying about some do-gooders in the Federal Government looking to defend the LGBTQ community and all other students from the rapacious crotch spying by sicko conservatives.
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