Two things I say about both the USA specifically, and the world generally, is that opponents of transwomen are not interested in defending the rights of transwomen, rather they are punching down on transgender.

I have written a story inspired by a man I knew, now deceased, who was a white supremacist, who, get this, ate Chinese food, drove a Japanese vehicle and even ate some Japanese rice crackers at a picnic. After his mother died, his sister, who was not a racist, told him that their great-grandfather was Chinese. He didn't take it too well, and he cancelled his great-grandfather and wouldn't acknowledge his Chinese ancestry. Many a time, but I was told to keep silent, I wanted to say to him, "If it weren't for Chinese people, you wouldn't be here, today." I can't say to him, "You must accept your Chinese ancestry. And you must be proud of it." Some have said to me, "Why didn't his mother just tell him?" And the reasons for that, I believe, were twofold. One, he was born in the 1930s, in Australia, and I knew a man who had First Nations Ancestry, who was forced to leave school at 11, but had the last laugh, as he went to do a Masters Degree, because the locals didn't want their kids attending school want their kids attending school with him, because of his skin colour! Later on, as he picked up the racist language of his elders, his mother probably didn't want to tell him, even after his father had died, as she knew how he would have reacted.

The Republicans do not need to correct anybody's "delusion". Okay, in Australia there is a serious misconception among the ignorant that the First Nations People get a lot because they're First Nations Peoples. If a person dishonestly claims that their great-great-grandmother was a First Nations woman who married a stockman, and they make a financial gain, yes, they should be prosecuted for fraud.

I say that the Republicans have no right to tell transgender people how to live their lives and nor do they have any right to step in. One reason why I am vehemently opposed to laws against puberty blockers is that if a person has taken them, it can be harder to clock a transgender person, and that would be anathema to the hard right-wing.