Skrmetti was the culmination of a decade long effort to turn the tide back against LGBTQ rights by the far right. They specifically targeted trans people after Obergefell to cleave the community. Now their next target is to overturn Obergefell. That's the end goal. We were a stepping stone to that.

Given that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on the constitutionality of conversion therapy bans (Chiles v Salazar), this line is particularly troubling.

Of course, anti-trans activists have always been pro-conversion therapy: for trans folks and cis gays alike. But they’ve been increasingly comfortable promoting this view openly.

Though the Court is vague on the details, this is the same language used in the Trump-commissioned Health and Human Services report released last month, which repeatedly argued that psychotherapy is a “noninvasive alternative” to gender affirming care.

So frustrated right now. No, the "Left" did not overplay its hand on trans rights, Sarah; the Right spent nearly a decade funding an international misinformation campaign to vilify trans people.