I think my biggest problem with the "debate" over whether Democrats should abandon trans people is how divorced from reality it is.
Republicans are banning gender-affirming care because they think kids are being rushed into surgeries. THIS IS NOT HAPPENING.
Republicans are banning gender-affirming care because they think kids are being rushed into surgeries. THIS IS NOT HAPPENING.
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I will try to do better at pointing put the lies, the myths, and the fears going forward.
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Even though it isn't happening.
But we all know why they're really doing it.
The party would implode.
The things the GOP complain about are NOT TRUE. Call out their individual lies about it. Focus attention on the crazy lies and put the pressure back on the GOP.
I think they are opposing gender-affirming care for a number of things they FEEL or BELIEVE, but nothing that they THINK.
They feel creepiness and loathing and they believe it's irreligious.
I don’t mean that flippantly. It’s a genuine issue in the anti-trans movement.
https://lawsuit.org/general-law/republicans-have-an-obsession-with-transgender-pornography/
My “do you realise porn is not real life” replies had no effect though.
centrist dems need to be viewed as the allies and enablers of MAGA and the GOP they objectively are and fought the same, or we are doomed.
Ds must stop conceding to that stone walling strategy. Ds should talk about Education, Housing, minimum wage, etc.
If Dems give up trans people, the Reps aren't going to say ok you can have abortions. They'll say "One down..."
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/15/how-many-transgender-athletes-are-there-in-the-us/
Tell someone claiming “reasonable concerns” that, and you’ll discover 99% don’t care and are just covering for their hatred of minorities.
Half of them are for disc golf. Some are for poker. One is for a hot dog eating competition where the winner wasn’t even trans. (But counts as THREE medals STOLEN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6ATSnXNUSE&t=1754s
Republicans are banning trans athletes because they think boys are pretending to be girls to win competitions. THEY AREN'T.
there's a reason why all the misogynist rapists out there are going "we must purge this degeneracy from our patriotic culture" and not "one of us! one of us!" regarding trans people
https://youtu.be/rPdVQc4hsIc?si=vUwpVHFefFhcyBx9
When people say Democrats should "moderate" on these issues, they are suggesting that we legislate a group out of public life based on lies.
https://bsky.app/profile/choubacha.bsky.social/post/3ljprwza5cs2z
Homelessness is a problem
Use state funds to build housing that the government owns (ignore current federal bans)
Celebrate and be celebrated for the solution to homelessness
And the problem is that both sides of this wretched polarised debate can't admit that it isn't all-or-nothing
https://xkcd.com/690/
thank you! the media is trying to manufacture consensus on this by spotlighting the outliers
you can't see someone setting a house on fire, whisper at them, "don't do that."
Then shrug with a "oh well, we tried."
- underwear inspectors bothering every single woman going for a piss? -> women suffer
- Genetic tests in order to play in girls and women sports? -> Women and girls suffer
- Keep a registry? Period tracker? -> guess what
"Then, what?"
Either admit your plans are unfeasible, or that you are ready to put ALL women on a registry.
Then
Methinks it could be enough.
White woman learning they and their daughters need to be "inspected for their own good" might give enough of them cold feet.
Either answer is bad for them.
They're leveraging trans people because they both want to eliminate trans people and want cis women barefoot and pregnant in the home. Oppressive gender policing serves both goals.
More.
Trans people exist and stigmatizing them is exactly the reason suicide rates are so high with this group
If you are willing to walk away from basic human rights due to polls then where is the line?
If a woman is raped by a man in a woman's bathroom, that man isn't going to bother two wear drag. They are just going to walk right in. That's not even a theoretical. That's what happens in those cases.
My wife said she has yet to feel threatened by anyone in a public restroom.
Quite honestly, I've never identified anyone as trans in a public restroom.
As a man, my eyes are watching the floor, walls, sink. I don't look at people.
They just hate us.
They’re threatened by us.
They want to can use us as an easy scapegoat. AND THEN THE DEMS ARE PLAYING BALL WITH THAT
They claim that. They bullshit that. They spew those words from their mouths.
To say "they think that..." assumes sincerity they have not demonstrated
Dems follow a public opinion that's been corrupted by a leader with a cult-like following.
https://bsky.app/profile/chrislhayes.bsky.social/post/3ljsvfioaa22d
My biggest problem wit the debate is that we're debating whether human beings will be allowed to be part of society.
It would not be less obscene w more facts.
Once you empower liars, there is no stopping their lust for power.
it's just a weak excuse. the real reason is "we find it weird". if it wasn't this, they'd find something else to latch onto and ban surgeries
The rest of us, about 66% of us, aren’t seen as people by in-club members. They see us as their goods & chattel, there to serve them.
They don't, they just fling lies like turds.
No argument will ever convince them or their base, it's like eating dogs and cats all over again.
It's pure hate dressed up as talking points.
Great newsletter by Peter today btw
I know it is a deeply important issue.
Senate Democrats just blocked a key vote, with every Democrat voting to stop Republicans.
It's time people woke up to the fact that Dems don't represent us.
• Hasn’t stopped the rise of the far right
• Left with the indelible stain on their record of having enacted the first anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation in decades
• Been tricked into attacking Labour’s own 15 year old equality law as “woke”
It’s comedically terrible.
Republicans want to ban gender-affirming care because it's a stepping stone to controlling women
Same for voter registration restrictions and low income voters & women
They want cis white men to be in charge
And I still remember that it took the Democrats a long time to back marriage equality.
This, also, does not stop with trans people either. (2/8)