#which...feinberg is a pretty bad amateur historian but s/he does raise some salient points about anti-trans rhetoric then and now

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i think a highly underdiscussed aspect of t.rf fascism is the fixation on energy and this whole constellation of beliefs within and adjacent to new age/occult-type stuff (moon witchcraft and period blood rituals and all of that stereotypical stuff come to mind, but also more subtle manifestations like that referenced in the feinberg).

i am not an expert on fascism, but we're all aware of this n.zi fixation on the occult, on astrology, we see the regan administration consulting astrologers for everyday decisions, we see the satanic panic being fueled by christian belief in magic, witchcraft, the like; antisemitism broadly fueled by similar wild assumptions. i think a particular genre of trfism, particularly the essentialization of "femaleness" as a kind of energy or immutable spiritual (re)source, is integral to anti-trans rhetoric and action - to banish trans people, particularly trans women, is to banish this idea of "bad energy" or "dark magic", with "dark" containing all of the usual white supremacist connotations around impurity, the unknown, etcetc.