The far-right’s coordinated attack on climate policy and trans rights

What happens if the right-right endgame not only stops progress, but erases it completely? From banning transhealth care to reversing climate policy, they don’t just resist change. They are trying to bring the world back to an imaginary past that never existed.

Crossing Climate policy and Trans rightsrights are not merely opposed to change. It actively drags America and unravels progress by pretending to be “common sense” and “restoring order.” But this isn’t just ideology. It’s about power.

from Getting out of the Paris Agreement In Prohibiting gender-affirming health carerights have perfected a progressive political strategy as a mistake that must be restored. Whether that’s true or not Climate behavior or Trans visibilitya step towards justice is surrounded by danger, unnatural, and need correction.

And, if we look closely, these attacks are not merely similar, they are deeply connected. By comparing the right one Climate rollback And that War on Trans rightsyou can see a wider range of strategies in the workplace. It promotes fear, produces doubt, and ultimately serves the interests of those who are already controlled.

The fight isn’t just about policy. It’s about who will be affiliated in the future.

Manufactured Crisis: Who is profiting from the reversal?

To justify rolling back both trans rights and climate protection, what is appropriate leaning towards a manufactured crisis. Dangerous social experiments present change as wrong. And what is the most effective way to do it? Suspicion of weapons.

Please change climate. Despite the overwhelming scientific consensus, Climate denier cherry pick uncertainty – Use rare instances that change climate models to question the entire field.

Similarly, the right is latched Destructive Storyamplifies a few cases in which individuals regret the transition and suggest that all trans people regret their identity.

By focusing on individual regrets rather than systemic reality, these movements create the illusion that climate action and transhealth care are harmful mistakes rather than necessary progress. The message is clear. These mistakes must be “corrected” by suppressing the state before this supposed damage occurs.

But who actually benefits from this rollback?

• Fossil fuel companies are profiting Climate skepticismensuring we continue to rely on dirty energy.
• Right-wing politicians are raising money away from anti-trans fears, avoiding economic issues that could actually improve people’s lives.

By believing people that they are “fighting back” against the elite, what is right obscures the actual elite who are profiting from this manufactured rage.

Scene: Trans-life and climate policy transform into a distraction

This won’t work without the media spectacle. Right-wing politicians and the media know that the most effective way to prevent people from questioning power is to continue to invest emotionally in performance.

Take the far right obsession with trans young people. They get flooded with airwaves in panic through adolescent blockers despite the fact that gender-affirming care is extremely rare.

Peer-reviewed studies Analysis of private insurance claims found that out of more than five million adolescents aged 8-17, only 926 received adolescent blockers and 1,927 people between 2018 and 2022.

Similarly, Climate policy is attacked as an elitist scheme To control the working class – paint the Green Energy Initiative as an attack on individual liberty, as gender-maintaining care is surrounded as an attack on children.

By moving the focus on the iconic enemy – “radical trans activists” or “climate elitists” – gives people people who hate someone while avoiding the true source of economic and environmental crises.

And this is more than just a cultural strategy. It’s a business model.

Capitalism lies in the business of causing problems and selling solutions.

Both strategies ensure that nothing really changes and it makes people feel like they are taking part in the fight for freedom.

It’s a distraction and it’s working.

Nature as a battlefield: Fear of far-right fluidity

At its heart, wars with trans people and wars with climate action stem from the same fear, the fear of change.

Queer ecology shows that nature itself is fluid, adaptable and constant transition. However, the far right claims a rigid binary category.

• Man/Woman.
• Fossil fuels/renewable energy.
• Traditional/destructive.

In both cases, fluidity is surrounded by unnaturalness. This must be controlled by political intervention.

But what’s really unnatural? An attempt to freeze society within the time limit. The climate is constantly changing. Gender is always fluid. The far right is not about protecting nature. They defend control.

Right Primary’s dent-strength obsession reflects climate rollback

Capitalism is not interested in actual progress – it cares about control.

The obsession with DETRANSITION reflects a climate rollback in that both are framed as necessary corrections for mistakes.

However, the goal has not returned to the real past. It is to construct a past version that justifies current oppression.

• Climate denial is not about scientific debate – it is about maintaining business power. Time reported in 2025.
• Anti-trans laws are not about protecting children. 2025 New York Times Editorial.

Neither of these rollbacks are a coincidence. They are part of a deliberate strategy of control, and tell us that progress is always temporary and can always be reversed.

Who owns the future?

If we allow the right to dransmash America, we risk a world where progress is always reversible and power remains in the hands of those who benefit from obstacles and fear.

The real question is not whether these issues are linked or not, but why they were separated in the first place. The fight over climate justice and trans rights is the same:

• The battle against the illusion of permanence.
• A battle between a manufactured crisis and a controlled reversal.
• A battle for a future that actually belongs to us all.

So, what do we do?

• We must refuse to accept the doubts that have been manufactured. Trans rights and climate action are not mistakes that need to be corrected.
• We must reject their false nostalgia – there is no past back, only a future to create.
• And most importantly, we must recognize that these struggles are relevant.

If you can’t see this, you risk allowing reactionary forces to shape the future. But if you understand their playbook, you can confuse the spectacle and refuse to let them instruct what comes next.

Because this battle is not going to be back. It’s about moving forward – and making sure no one can take that future away.

Cody Hayes is a PhD. Students at Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State University study media psychology, general understanding of science, digital misinformation, and focus on ideological worldviews. They are graduate researchers at MIDAS and Views Rabs, executive editors of the Journal of Public Interting Communications, and non-profit communication strategists with over a decade of experience.