Trans people might be less than 1% of the US population, but that still translates to well over a million Americans (probably over 2m, estimates vary). To put that number in perspective, FIRE's database of deplatformings—a national free speech crisis, remember?—lists 734 cases total, over 27 years. - ThreadSky

nicholasgrossman.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Trans people might be less than 1% of the US population, but that still translates to well over a million Americans (probably over 2m, estimates vary).

To put that number in perspective, FIRE's database of deplatformings—a national free speech crisis, remember?—lists 734 cases total, over 27 years.

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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social•1 day ago

If you don't object on principle to government discrimination against trans people because that's directly targeting "only" about 2 million people in the US—and you really should, but if you've decided it doesn't hurt enough people to be consequential—then at least think of "First they came for..."

shawnconnery.bsky.social•1 day ago

The whole numerical game play is insane - it does not matter, no one no matter how small or large the constituency should be targeted by the government.

joshhutchinson.bsky.social•1 day ago

If it were just one person, it's our duty to be compassionate and to turn that compassion into action. We have to stand together, or we are not a society.

rabidhatchet.bsky.social•1 day ago

If you're a minority, please use to full effect the 2A

jwitmer.bsky.social•1 day ago

As the US approached 100,000 COVID deaths, the NYT headline called it an “incalculable loss,” which it was.

The government erasing the identity of 2,000,000 trans people, however

edwarddavid.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes, although it needs to be said that this is how the strategy of division works, being put in the position of defending a persecuted minority and then framed as if gender issues are something that Democrats are otherwise obsessed with, (beyond the basic issue of personal freedom).

hughmurnaghan.bsky.social•1 day ago

They would never suggest that, in the context of the population of continental Europe 1939-1945, that targeting Jews, Sinti, Poles, etc., for execution should be considered inconsequential, against the wider war, because it was "only" c8-10 million...

Discrimination is discrimination.

smullins3000.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh, yes, the poor treatment of Milo is consequential. /s

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