Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.
Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.
You’ve made a lot of incorrect assumptions in that long screed.
Guess what?
I’m not trans.
I’m not mentally ill.
I think it’s worth thinking about the erasure and maltreatment of trans people.
I’m not going to let you do it without pointing it out.
Fascists start with the most vulnerable members of society, and they tell the rest of society that they can’t have relief from their own problems like shortages of food and housing until they leave behind those people.
You’re falling into that trap, and it’s especially sad since you too are part of a group that they’ll say should be left behind. They already consider autistic people as damaged as trans people, it’s the dark current underlying the antivax narrative.
It’s not only possible to care about trans people, people with disabilities, abortion rights, mail-in voting, homeless people, immigrants, healthcare inequity, poverty, food insecurity, and worker abuse at the same time, it’s easy because they all come down to the same essential thing.
Taking away from one of us takes from all of us. To forget that is to forswear your own humanity.
Don’t engage, they’re someone who assumes they’re right because they don’t want to be wrong, there’s nothing there besides what they want to be, and they’ve made it clear they don’t care much about the issue.
I don’t mind engaging. I may not be able to change them, but maybe there’s a kid out there feeling a little less alone. Or another person who just needs to be reminded that “evil starts with treatin’ people as things.”
I’ve voted against hate and towards body autonomy in every election large or small since 1978, and while it’s been 2 steps back for every step forward, that’s no reason to give up.