I have been told that this is part of the fascist playbook.

Find a marginalized community and destroy them under any pretext you can generate.

Start with something else, find one that'll put up the least amount of resistance, the one that will generate the least amount of sympathy, one that everyone who has the smallest calcium-deposit of decency in their body will hate.

Start with pedophiles, because you know and everyone knows pedophiles deserve to get murdered, right?

Then associate your marginalized community with the community that you destroyed. Start screaming from every media outlet that trans people are pedophiles. That they will invade bathrooms to rape children.

Then branch out to your next target. Go after the gays. Keep ramping up the intensity.

Go after people who have had an abortion or who provide abortions.

Go after people who have married other races.

Make all of these actions a crime so that you can arrest and disenfranchise the people using the legal platforms of the country.

Good, upstanding people don't want to be criminals, so they will do their best to not participate in the actions that you have disenfranchised.

As long as civil war does not break out and cause your regime to be overthrown, you are guaranteed success.

If a civil war does break out, all you have to do is use the overwhelming power of your military to defeat them, and then claim every single person that rebelled against your tyranny were actually the tyrannists.

Use previous instances of civil war as evidence that you were in the right and they are in the wrong just like it was 150 years ago.

Ignore the fact that the first civil war was about ending slavery even though the second civil war will be about reinstituting slavery.

Rinse and repeat, continuously increasing the pressure until eventually you achieve your goal of picking your own race and economic political class as the supreme race and everyone else is disadvantaged.

The best part is, is that by and large, the people who are close to your ideal group of people will support you all the way up until you turn the thumbscrews on them.

And then they will say, "How did this happen? I don't understand why you would turn on me."

But nobody will be there to save them.

People in general aren't all that bright and are easily distracted by wedge issues. Trans rights conveniently distract everyone on both sides from our leaders' overall corruption and failure to address larger existential crises like climate change and massive wealth inequality.