Bans on Gender Affirming Care for Youth Reveal Purity Culture Is More Than Just an Evangelical Problem
…igious anti-trans rhetoric can still be compelling to people who see themselves as supporters of LGBT rights is because we haven’t confronted the ways in which we continue to organize ourselves around the gender binary. The concept of social contagion, as understood by British anthropologist Mary Douglas, may help explain why these lawmakers want to keep trans people out of the social order. In Purity and Danger, Douglas claims that social boundar…
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