Why the fight against transgender equality has rallied the right The fight against transgender equality has quickly escalated to an outright war waged by extremists on the political right who seem to completely control a narrative that most of their base actually doesn’t even support.
Why is the political right so adamant about fighting transgender equality? Because it gets people to vote; historically, that has already been proven.
In the 1980s, Paul Weyrich rallied evangelicals like himself to vote against President Jimmy Carter, eventually denying the Democrat a second term in office.
Weyrich recognized a set of beliefs that greatly mattered to evangelicals; beliefs that, if threatened, would encourage them to vote for the candidate they thought would protect those beliefs.