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My friends across the pond are have even more to worry about. Take for example this article:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/05/conservative-states-rebrand-pride-month-backlash

I have a different proposal, to create a new set of celebrations celebrating the welfare state, trade unions and worker's rights legislation, and how these tended to produce the economic conditions necessary for childbirth as seen in the very period these fascists seem to admire. Childbirth is what this GOP stunt is about. The boom in baby births in the 1950s, 60s and 70s were a direct result of people suddenly being able to afford nice things like housing, food, transportation and general luxury, where someone fresh out of college could usually get a good job and work really did pay.

Conservatives have attacked unions, workers rights and generally weakened the economic purchasing power of ordinary people so much since the 80s that lots of people just don't have children anymore. Instead of fixing their mess, they scapegoat trans people and continue cutting education.