Pete Buttigieg, white, male, Christian, gender conforming, veteran, Ivy League educated, successful career, stable marriage, two children, has become the new Republican bogeyman. Because gay people aren't supposed to be all that. We aren't supposed to be at all.
So Marjorie Q Greene talks about him using girls' restroom, which he doesn't. Senator Tom Cotton is moaning that "liberals" want you to walk, oh the horror, take the subway, or ride a scooter or whatever it is that Pete Buttigieg uses. Translation, drive a gas guzzler to prove you aren't gay.
Straight males so terrified of women and gays. Outlaw abortion, ban trans people, don't even say gay. These macho men are terrified.