This paper investigates the ways in which contemporary christian nationalists are threatened by transgender children. Christian nationalist employees are rhetoric of child harm as The frame that touts transgender children as "sinful.” This device of harm is a mirroring of the anxiety (and subsequent horror) that all children are gender nebulous. The notion that a child has the autonomy to understand their gender identity presents a significant challenge to what Jaques Lacan refers to as the Symbolic Order. This rupture in the Symbolic Order causes violent reactions as the Christian nationalist subject begins to realize that the split within the Self. This essay uses Lee Edelman’s conception of the figure of the child as a psychological stand in for the future where he says, “We are no more able to conceive of a politics without a fantasy of the future than we are able to conceive of a future without the figure of the Child” (Edelman, Queer Theory and Death Drive ). I posit that the fascist tendencies of contemporary christian nationalism seek to control children as a symbol of controlling a homogenous view of the future.
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