I don’t want to sound like a nutcase, but here it goes. I finished reading The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History by Frank Dikötter today and so much felt familiar. I’m not saying that the trans rights movement is equivalent to Maoist China or that our setbacks are equivalent to the horrors the Chinese people went through. I am saying that the radicalization, the denial of facts, the desire to tear down any institution that didn’t reinforce their narrative, the obsession of ideological purity, the witch hunts, the use of violence on dissenters, and the public humiliation of people who fell out of line sounds exactly like the climate of the trans movement.