It's an easy cop-out to think trans people are responsible for our own oppression, because if that was the case, it's something we could have control over and remedy. It's a lot harder to reckon with the reality that a coalition of right wing groups are spending extraordinary money opposing us.
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Kat Tenbarge
The idea that pro-trans movements led to anti-trans sentiment is egregiously out of touch with reality. Increased LGBTQ representation led to historic shifts in public opinion toward the community. The aggressively bigoted and violent campaigns that lied about trans people are clearly responsible
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- an endless parade of lib turds
Like "haha have fun being dead in 30 years by the time we start thinking about dedicating any actual resources to your plight".
https://youtu.be/1TCX90yALsI?si=5SJZUr_effcIiD6b
I mean yeah, it's that just about everyone who has the ability spread a message is on the "They make me feel icky so we need to eradicate them" bandwagon
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/07/journalists-listserv-shows-prevalent-transphobia-media/
"Stop hitting yourself"
"It's your fault we hit you."
"If you didn't want to be hit, you would have stayed quiet [while we kept hitting you, anyway]"
Every journalist and consultant bringing it up vis-a-vis swinging voters is skipping a dozen better ways to do that.