Dems with anti-trans views are on the ballot. What now? | Dr Helen Webberley
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Helen Webberley on the brutal calculation facing pro-trans voters when their own party lets them down.

Trans journalist Erin Reed has published a list of Democratic midterm candidates with anti-trans records, and the question she is forcing is one the party would rather not answer: if trans voters keep rewarding Democrats who harm them, what signal does that send? The calculation is real, the stakes are high, and there is no clean answer.

    • pageflight@piefed.socialEnglish
      27·
      17 hours ago

      For a lot of single-issue voters, this kind of calculation is theoretical. For trans people right now, it is not. An anti-trans Democrat in office is a harm. A Republican who is openly, aggressively, legislatively hostile to trans existence is a different order of harm. Both things are true, and genuinely hard to reconcile.

      Yeah, that’s an awful choice. I can’t think of a better option than the article presents — name the candidates and their shortcomings/wrongs.

    • LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world
      141·
      16 hours ago

      If you’re going to sacrifice your own safety and security, at least let it be for revolutionary direct action, not laying down for the slaughter.