Unmasking the MAHA Veil: Health rhetoric as social punishment

Jonathan V. Last argues that the anti-trans movement and the Make America Healthy Again health crusade use rhetoric about health not to promote transparency or genuine policy, but to punish marginalized people and pressure others to adopt flawed cures. He points to Kansas’ law that would immediately invalidate transgender drivers’ licenses as evidence of a punitive, camouflaged agenda behind slogans about women’s sports and health.