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Hold on, the people passing bills criminalising abortions to the victims of rape and incest, sending prisoners to El Salvador and generally acting indifferently to rape of all kinds in our prison system are suddenly morally outraged about this rare category of rape?
The entire debate is motivated by creeps who can’t get their minds off other peoples’ bits and bedrooms. Let people make medical decisions with their doctors. And battle sexual violence in general, not just when it sets off the Carlsons’ multigenerational obsession with trans folk.
In the case of policy that enabled incarcerated men to transfer to women's prisons, the opposition came first and foremost from radical feminist collectives, on the very clear principle of this being detrimental to women. Look at the Women's Liberation Front (WoLF) in particular.
The Republican political machine only started to take a serious interest in this later on, when they realized this was an opportunity to attack the Democrats on unpopular and demonstrably harmful policy.