At Turning Point AmFest, Trump promises on day one to go after trans people with executive orders, banning trans people from the military, banning gender affirming care, and removing trans people from schools.
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The thing I don’t get is how the fuck is he going to ban something that isn’t happening. Child gender mutilation is already illegal, unless you’re a boy (circumcision) or you’re intersex. Is that gonna be affected? Probably not. So, unless he’s going to ban circumcision et al, he’s not doing shit.
So, now, my mere existence is #resistance and I’m simply agender. I fucking lament the impact this will have on men and women who have legal name changes, operations, and are actively living as a gender not on their birth certificate. This is an erasure.
it's code. It's about excluding trans kids and teenagers from *any* type of medical support or social support. They falsely call it all child gender mutilation as a way to justify a heavy-handed response to it and to outlaw all of it
Of course, but those don’t fall under genital mutilation. I don’t know what specific surgeries he’s trying to eliminate, but, to me, it sounds like he’s trying for an easy win by banning shit that’s already illegal.
Dont forget about the Jews. Since you are already most of the way to being hitler 2.0. Give us all one more reason to kick you out of office for the monster you are.
Republicans are openly genocidal towards transgender people. They want us dead. Stigmatize and dehumanize. That's how the fascist will justify our rights being stripped from us. Spending years in a prison of your own skin and finally breaking free just for that freedom to be threatened.
They want us hidden out of sight so they can rape us in the middle of the night. It’s their secret fetish and all those that don’t pass to their highest standards they want dead
Fuck the patriarchy
I want to believe that y'all have a lot more support than you get hate from the entire hetero segment of humanity. I know I will always support you and accept you as you truly are and love you for having the courage to be yourself in the face of such ignorance and hatred.
Believe me when I say you are not alone. They have spent decades grinding their teeth at the idea of any queer freedom, so the fight continues. Human rights for any/all of us comes only when we unite and demand them. 🌈
Agreed. Patriarchy gives nothing without a bloody fight. Radical women become more radical as we age and have zero fucks to give. Radical feminist writing from 70-80s are chock full of ideas/suggestions that should give the right nightmares.
I canceled my bottom surgery consultation because of this stupid BS. Why go through all the hassle when they are going to ban insurance coverage ? I’m sooo fking angry, you just don’t know.
I absolutely HATE my country right now. Fuck EVERY Trump supporter!
Hey, these four years are gonna be rough… and violent…
But if we do it right, it’ll be glorious. So fight strong, many people now know the feeling of having hormones, of having a sense of freedom of expression. They’re not giving it up.
Please reschedule that appointment ASAP🙏🏽
Consultation is just one step. Take that step soon and then watch closely for what happens next.
There are a lot more people talking about this than you know!
Sending you love and hope
Totally understand
PLEASE go back to therapy
Not for this BS
But because you will need a place to be authentic in the days to come
I am sending you hope even though I know - having Hope blows sometimes
Sending you Hope to fan the flames of the fight within you for when you are tired
💜🔥🥊
How many people even encounter a trans person? I am 64 and have encountered two that I am aware of. One was a Pharmacy Tech and the other my favorite employee at a garden center. Good Lord, leave people alone.
Portland is probably the most trans-friendly urban area in the country… and randomly interacting with a trans-person is still uncommon, maybe 1-2% (that I'm aware of). I can't imagine what it's like in areas where residents are openly hostile.
Regardless of how many trans people are out there and whether or not people encounter them (or realize they have), they have the same rights as any other US Citizen.
The fact that its a small community means that they need allies and outspoken friends to advocate for them.
Gender affirming surgery ≠ genital mutilation, and him suggesting they're synonymous is an insult to all parties. The first is a medical procedure to bring someone joy, the other a brutal non-medical attempt to make sure women will never get pleasure from sex, done to peri-pubescent girls.
you forgot circumcision is also performed on infants and often leads to medical problems later in life. and sometimes it's even done against parent wishes that were directly put in writing.
This is true, but circumcision has medical benefits. It is just questionable as far as risk/benefit ratio, which is why it should be based on parental preferences. Informed consent is a must.
However, there is no medical benefit to removing a clitoris in order to keep a woman from having orgasms.
I've heard of no such benefits of circumcision. they say it keeps the penis clean, but in actuality it increases the risk of infection.
I think that only adults should get a consensual circumcision. Infants can't consent. Unless the foreskin is too tight or won't open, the procedure is unnecessary.
Circumcision by country. USA 80%, UK 20% (still too high), France 14%, Germany 7%, Ireland 0.9%. No surgery, unless life saving, should be done without consent. EVER!
and - me, personally as a woman, I prefer a cut penis based on the aesthetic.
does that mean I should make it a law that everyone has to be circumsized?
probably not, seems a little self-serving while ignoring the evidence of health.
JFC he is a sick loathsome fuck!🤬🤬🤬 I don't typically carry alot of raw hatred for anyone/thing, but hate for this low life piece of shit burns pretty hot. Especially when he targets people who are just trying to survive with their souls intact.
What did the LGBTQ community do to these maggots, besides being themselves? Absolutely nothing! Everyone deserves a free space, rather you agree with them or not
its an often misunderstood marginalized community, we're ripe for fearmongering and scare tactics, and the media let it happen. We knew it was all orchestrated, but nobody in power cared enough to protect us.
That’s why we have to keeping transmitting the wisdom from our queer ancestors and how they fought against the past hate waves, so we can fight the one we’re having now, and prepare the next queer generation to fight the ones that will come in the future.
Kamala would have protected the LGBTQ community but many LGBTQ people voted for 🍊themselves and even campaigned to help him win. Scott Presler being one of the more famous ones
don't even give me that. The democrats are nothing but sitting ducks that exist simply for the progression of a fascist right wing agenda. They're the party of claiming ambivalence and you're confusing "we're not the party to revoke LGBTQ rights" with "we're the party that supports LGBTQ rights"
86% of LGBTQ voters went for Harris, more than any other demographic except for Black women (92%), so I’d like to cordially invite you to fuck off and stop blaming us for the party’s inability to win elections.
Bullshit and you know it. Biden and Harris have been POTUS and VP for 4 YEARS! They had all that time to put something in place and they chose not to. Instead passing a bill to ban trans people in the military just this week. So tell me again how Harris would have done anything but give lip service
For the record this is the same bs they spout every 4 yrs when someone needs citizens in PR to vote in the primaries and then forget about them after it's done. It's always the same song and dance. Just a show to get votes and then ignore them for the next 4 yrs until they need the votes again.
The real insidious part of the whole trans panic which is by far worse than the whole gay panic of the past is that trans people unless actively seeking other trans people really are isolated without peers of the same group they belong to in every day life.
Two random trans people are rarely going to cross paths. I have been a living in my truth trans person since the 90s. If it were not that I worked in a hospital setting until I retired from said hospital. I never would have encountered someone like me outside work unless I actively sought them out.
Let’s think about that for a moment if you are not trans. The likelihood of you being in a situation where you are being bullied,discriminated against or attacked at any time in regular normal day to day life relies on an ALLY to speak up or defend you. Not someone like YOU.
Being trans is akin to being the only black person allowed into an all whites school. Except it’s not just school, it’s every where you go. That’s your life. The fact that this out cry over wasn’t shut down from the beginning over a group of people you’d likely never come across. Is just evil.
To my sister’s that read this. Know that we were at the forefront for rights in the past when others could not rise up. It was us that threw the first brick. That built “houses” for the shunned. You do not come from a weak line and now is not the time to be weak mentally or otherwise. Stay armed.
I understand what you're saying. Having grown up in a nearly all-white environment, I moved to New Orleans to live among other people of color. When you're a minority, there is something about being around your own people that brings comfort. I hope you can share that experience one day.
I refuse to go back in the closet...
I'll never go back to that small dark place. They'll have to kill me.
I'm trapped in a red state with my partner... I was supposed to get an appointment at PP for hrt in January... I hate it here so much.
This country is a shithole. I'm so fucking done...
Your whole thread is so well written. My trans son is 16. He wants to go into the Marines. He is so downtrodden over this. I am so angry and scared for him. What a horrible life. He has no friends and a bleak future because of the hate 45 and his groupies are spreading.
And yet dRump, Gaetz, Hegseth just a few so called heterosexuals have all been accused of rape... At least 1 of a minor...
But we should fear trans or gays! Lordy!
imo not necessarily "worse" than "gay panic"..many forget: only 21.5yrs since open lgbtq could lose FREEDOM in much of USA. truth? we see similar backlash EVERY time ANY minority starts gaining recognition/representation/rights etc..backlash to such backlash often leads to NEW civil rights movements
I do apologize if I came across in my feverish rant in the moment as though I was downplaying the plight of one group over another’s. That was not my intent and I feel misses the overall point of what I was trying to convey which is my bad not yours.
nah..I'm sorry..I didn't interpret your points that way or mean to give impression I disagree concerning seriousness of plight trans now face. I only mean to emphasize it's been worse for ALL lgbtq than it is today and no matter how hard haters try, I fully believe lgbtq+allies WILL (again) win out!
2/so imo current trans backlash will dissipate before things truly get bad as before..esp as panic again is based in lies fully reliant on decent ppl's ignorance..such ignorance cant be maintained forever and imo as avg decent yet ignorant folk see REAL harm of GAC bans etc, I believe most will care
imo, do keep hope..example: some in my own family truly believe GAC bans "protect kids"..They are genuinely decent yet also genuinely ignorant and sadly fully sold on provable lies/manipulation RW spent 100s of mill/hrs daily spreading..they've NEVER heard real facts about trans but DO actually CARE
I agree..however even that taken into account things have still been worse for trans both in lack of GAC and mere crossdressing could land you in jail..being more visible always made trans easier target, but most people are nowhere near supporting law like sodomy/crossdressing/SS marriage bans again
They know hair plugs, erectile dysfunction meds, jaw surgery, and testosterone supplements are all gender affirming care too right? Right? Exclusionary reactionary suckas. The lot of them. It be funny if they weren’t so dangerous.
Not the eradication of trans people. That isn’t funny at all. What is funny is their blindness to the things they use as gender affirming care while they wrongly see themselves as separate. They do the same thing with race. Act like male isn’t a gender and white ain’t a race.
I think on the surface maybe that’s true but that’s based on fear and misinformation. I do think it’s blindness cause the same tools used to go after folks will one day be turned against them. Not seeing that is a huge blind spot and weakness.
Ty for sharing. This is beyond horrible jfc . He and they want to genocide everyone not rich white straight males & all adults who go after adults & children are vile.
yep. I don't think it's useful to let them control the narrative by reducing the situation to one man being the embodiment of evil. Too easy to sanitize their image once he's gone.
It was certainly one of Musk's conditions for his campaign support. Musk is known to have a vendetta against transgender people because of his transgender daughter.
Throw this shit in the face of everyone who told you over the course of the entire election that "Trump won't be so bad! You have nothing to worry about!" I will not be fucking gaslit about this. We screamed ourselves hoarse trying to tell people this is what they wanted.
There are a lot of things I would like to say about Republicans and The Orange Buffoon, but I still need to be able to travel to the US in the future 🤬🤬🤬
Maybe the trans community has opened up the possibility for them that they too maybe trans?
Other than that, I cannot imagine what they’re so bothered by. In all of my years, I’ve only met a few trans people, and they have all been wonderful people.
When your entire cultural project is about forcing everyone into one of the other of a very small handful of rolls centered around age and gender, the people who don't and won't fit into those rolls are a big problem.
Fascism 101:
Create an "other" group to incite fear within your base, focusing their attention on a group that can't defend themselves so that you can get away with whatever you want while the populace is distracted.
14 Characteristics of Fascism
3 Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists…
The biggest mistake we make is thinking Fascism is only about Jews.
Jews where just convenient at the time. It can be any group the fascist leader chooses.
The worst part is they're not obsessed, trans folk are just the easiest target. The powers that be on the right don't actually care about trans people, they just know they're the safest to kick.
Trans people are first line in Neimoller's poem, as it were.
“There were no minutes or copy of what I said, & it may be that I formulated it differently. But the idea was anyhow: The Communists, we still let that happen calmly; and the trade unions, we also let that happen; & we even let the Social Democrats happen. All of that was not our affair.”
-Niemöller
Except they weren't, Niemoller had no problems with what happened to trans people, hell he had no problems with what happened to any queer people. Gay men were taken from the camps to jail before he wrote the poem, so they had already been 'come for' again when he wrote the poem.
What you said is absolutely true and I'm not disagreeing with us being the easiest target, but they absolutely are obsessed with us. They can't stop thinking about us, being in "our place" which is on their porn sites, as their favourite video category, not among them as other equal human beings.
I don't mean to remove bigots' agency: they're still assholes, but you can see how their assholery has been honed and refined by the people leading them.
This. They pivoted to trans people after they lost the public on same-sex marriage. People weren't falling for anti-gay dog whistles in sufficient numbers to drive policy anymore, so they needed to select a different minority to present as a threat.
it also didn't help that the GOP's anti-trans ad spending of 215 million dollars in the election not only was met with silence from democrats but it did in fact worsen public opinion about trans people, a real one-two punch that makes me uh, not feel great about my future.
Also they know from that fight that there's still a substantial minority of voters who think they're OK with LGBT people but get rattled when thinking about *their kids* being LGBT. They beat us on Prop 8 by winning those voters with "gay marriage will be taught in schools." (1/2)
And that's why so much of their anti-trans stuff focuses on the panic about kids, and then they throw in the athletics stuff in case people's daughters are getting to college age.
I'm Canadian and watched that exact alignment happen in Toronto's suburbs, where conservatives of multiple faiths made common cause over sex education and LGBTQ+ rights.
It's an uneasy coalition, though, and it's falling apart over Palestine.
Ultimately, this is about making it so all women are subservient to men. People living outside of that dynamic threaten the idea that this is the only acceptable option. This is why they go after the agency of women/queer/trans people, and why they so easily jump targets for their dog whistles.
I also think they expected trans people to be a permanent outcast group. They lost the battle on society accepting gay people. Now there’s another group that mediocre white people have to compete with for jobs, power, opportunity.
I have never understood how so many can not respect women who actually create the the race. We American women need to learn our worth and the worth of the men we sex it up with. So many other places for thousands of years have the highest respect. Vikings were actually women. Other warriors too.
This is correct. Almost 100% of the right wing transphobia came out post-Dobbs, and especially when they kept losing state measures that made abortion legal. As it turns out, Americans like having access to abortions, and without Roe, they needed a new specter.
For the front-line folks, it often starts as economic anxiety but metastasizes due to the party's leaders. It's important for the leadership to keep the rank-and-file focused on culture war issues...
...because as soon as the base realizes the rich are robbing them blind, it's Luigi time.
This is the other meaning of “the cruelty is the point”. They just want to be cruel. They don’t care to whom. We just make the most convenient target, along with immigrants.
It'll be trans people, then immigrants, then gays, then blacks, then leftists. Eventually it'll be each other, which is where Russia is at, with oligarchs knifing each other
Performative cruelty is a great red herring, if you're a political sociopath
To begin normalizing marginalization & dehumanization. It'll be easier to go after other groups once a few "easy" ones go down. And by "easy" I mean "already marginalized enough that destroying what little power & rights they have should be fairly simple."
Why? They're miserable, small people
as long as we're sufficiently marginalised they actually want us to exist, we serve as an example they can hold up to demonstrate why happens when you don't conform to their expectations, but once we get treated at all as respectable members of society we no longer serve that purpose
we were 100% targeted, thrown in camps, and killed
hitler's speeches usually focused on Roma and Jews tho
there were the people he was publically killing, and those he was privately killing
- Some "men" want to & can be women and "step down" from their privilege
- And some "women" want to & can be men and "step up" to the privilege they are barred from
- And some people desire to be neither
Fascist, capitalist, imperialist, & patriarchal thinking will villainize and demonize anything that critiques its absurdity and falsity — the more prominent & visible the critique, the more it will be attacked & scapegoated
The most subversive critique of all is simply existing as what they oppose
This is why the gentlest request of trans people to exist is treated as the deadliest threat to humanity
Trans & NB people, who simply want to live our lives peacefully, are treated as if allowing this one simple request would annihilate the planet & society faster than any nuclear bomb
And this is true for any marginalized group whose existence is a threat to an artificial hierarchy, really! It's just trans peoples' turn in the spotlight this time around
Lots of reasons, but mostly a malignant combination of greed, racism and religion as a tool used by patriarchy. For many countries population is power. GDP, tax revenue, well stocked military etc.
You combine this with the tentacles that Christofacists have woven into our government 1/?
particularly followers of the quiverfull “warriors for the lord” movement, and continently states white men should remain in charge “as god intended”. I’ve spoken with and have seen views on more than one occasion where being trans is seen as a white people issue (even though trans people of 2/?
of color are even harder hit by anti-trans policies and rhetoric). Many (but obviously and certainly not all) trans people do become sterile either through affirmative surgeries or from how they are individually effected by hormonal therapy, and many become sterile before ever having 3/?
A child or two. Because of this we’re seen as a threat by politicians and corporate entities because a lot of us are living our lives in such a way that will lessen their grip on their power. It’s the same reason why reproductive rights have been so firmly in the crosshairs as well. More bodies for
exploitive labor, including “legal” slavery for for-profit prisons, more bodies for the military, more consumers to buy more shit, more blonde-haired blue-eyed Christians. More. More. More.
Because parents don't want grown men going in the bathroom with our little girls and vice versa. The question really is, why can't people respect what parents want for their children. And castrating children should in no way ever be allowed. Goddamn, libtards.
Do you hear yourself? You sound like a right wing talking point about trans folks, not an original thought in your head. Leave people the hell alone pedocon
It’s not about letting people exist. Of course they can exist. It’s about keeping men out of women’s sports. And maybe keeping women dressed as men off the battlefield.
if they get everyone focusing on 'The Evil Transes' then it distracts from the struggles they create for the lower class in order to prop up the wealthy. If theres a culture war to fight, then theres no threat of class war.
If people can be whatever they want to be then their whole social order feels threatened. The entire power structure relies on everyone "knowing their place". That's why ya gotta keep the little women folk in line too.
Musk was never left wing. He was an apartheid nepo-baby and only considered himself a Democrat for the short time he did for the same reason most other upper-class Democrats do - it doesn't have the stink of evangelicalism that being Republican used to be defined by.
/cont
be Republican and be accepted as one without being overtly religious, the mask was off.
He's always been politically conservative, and his only socially liberal beliefs were that he wants to be able to do drugs. Like most American Libertarians, basically.
Oh, okay, then it was fake liberal? All these lefties people used to love him. Call him innovative. I mean conservative but a million children by different women?
That's not unusual. Divorce rates are among the highest in evangelical circles.
And yes, many liberals and some leftists (they aren't the same) did fall for the mask. Many leftists didn't because they tend to be anti-capitalist and even at his most liberal-posing Musk was always very capitalist.
Because they’re all repressed, and their entire punitive fantasy worldview crumbles if people who live outside of that repression experience even one moment of joy.
because it gins up their base, gives them a scapegoat they can redirect their fears and grievances toward. What was with the obsession of Nazis and Jews? Same phenomenon.
The typical answer is "it isn't about trans ppl." That's true as far as it goes, they are using us as a wedge issue to go after bodily autonomy and freedom of expression.
But it IS about trans ppl in that they genuinely think we are a threat to social order and civilization, an afront to god
It's pretty consistent with Christianity once it had gotten in bed with the Roman empire. Completely de-radicalized it. It became pro slavery, pro patriarchy, pro hetero supremacy, pro gender binary, pro war, etc. Which is to say it is very consistent with faux-Christianity
We're a minority specifically being dehumanized and targeted in order to start stripping away anything resembling substantive due process. Once that's gone, they can move VERY quickly into other areas of civil rights.
I don't disagree, that was my first paragraph's point. I was simply pointing out that we're not merely a wedge issue they don't otherwise care about. There is a reason we're a target, and its due to 1) the theo-ideology of Christian Nationalism and 2) our small size makes us ideal scapegoats
It's a win/win for them. They get covered to lay the groundwork to attack everyone they hate and get to work out a system on an especially vulnerable community
When reactionaries talk about their enemies, they are actually talking about themselves. Anything they say about other people is a statement of action or intent on their own part.
Good. We're survivors, them? Die faster. No one will be coming to help them this time. You know how much work we did to save those assholes last time? Fuck that.
Limbaugh called them dittoheads for a reason. These deplorable people invent an issue that sounds horrific if it were true, and create policy based on it. You have to question their sanity and if they're safe to be around kids.
He just stopped short of saying getting us out of society. But I guess if he does all of that on day one he has another 3 years and 364 days to work on that. This is very scary stuff.
I keep trying to tell people, and they either don't care, or don't believe it will be that bad.
If you read project 2025, it will be far more and far worse than even this.
How in the hell do we fight somebody who controls every branch of government, and evidently most of the press too?
you get enough people together to work together, protect each other, and do whatever is in your collective means to take action against the power that you can
How do we protect each other from having our prescriptions cancelled and our doctors refusing to treat us?
Or our official IDs gender reverted and completely invalidated?
I can't think of any action a small group like ours could take that they would pay any attention to that wouldn't end us quicker.
I myself, moved to a position of safety in Germany, but I still want to help people to stop the problems in the US.
I'm really at a loss as to what to do, other than to implore leaders of other governments to add protections to US trans people and women into trade agreements or something...
But why?
you can get prescriptions from doctors willing to go against the grain as it were, or diy online. IDs not much to do outside fakes, but those could work in certain situations.. it's going to be hard if/when this shit happens, no doubt, but the trans community has been through worse! don't give in!
as much as trump's fight was federal, yours is local. only focus on the hearts and minds and connections of those AROUND you. those are the people with the actual power to hurt or help you in times of crisis
He’ll “try” as hard as he “tried” to lower grocery prices… MAGA paramilitaries turning against the Trump regime because he didn’t keep his promises is what will give Trans people among others some much needed time to organize/move/prepare etc
Democrats have already thrown trans people under the bus. Their post-election analyses are already spinning the narrative that they lost b/c of support for trans people.
If you’re curious where this is going just refer to the history of the German Reich and their atrocities. These people are Nazis by their beliefs and actions. These are the same actions taken by the Reich.
Expect book burnings. Brown ppl dragged off in vans rigged into gas chambers. Lunchings etc
I think that I actually hate him now and that was hard for me to admit. Last time, I tolerated him. All those who supported him are idiots. I'm sorry but that's how I feel. I will pray for our country and that it survives.
If you enjoy jacking it to us on pornhub (the numbers don't lie), then nows about the time when you should be grabbing a baseball bat and a Molotov so you can help keep us alive.
Enough. teachers have the power and should go on strike on Jan20th. It will crush his economy as people won't be able to go to work cuz they have to watch the kids.
too small, think more someone who campaigned on trump being this brand of fascist, who has access to drones and is protected for any acts committed in an official capacity
I’m saying that there are a lot trans and nonbinary leftists, specifically white ones, with large platforms who actively spent the entire campaign shitting on the democrats while never once acknowledging what the alternative was, and that we now get to deal with this as a result of that.
Thanks for clarifying. Kinda goes back to your initial point- people sitting out election day (which is itself being made harder and harder for some to access). Perhaps it's from a sense of having no real choice between the two parties? Should democrats get minority votes for simply being democrats?
Until the entirety of the American electorate rejects the 2 party system and comes up with something better, which is something that the GOP and their voters would never even entertain, then voting for harm reduction is the only logical choice.
I predict be will be coming after kids with IEP plans next, anyone with kids on the Autism Spectrum should be concerned right now. And probably immigrants as well. Nice easy way to defund the schools.
Trump wants Trans people out of the military, saying they have no place there, but he himself got out of serving by claiming he had bonespurs. Because he has never been brave. Trans people in the US being themselves is a braver thing than he's ever done.
She's been excommunicated from the tribe... We don't have room for Benedette Arnold's here...
If they don't want her, I guess she's shit out of luck. Go back to her horrible family, I suppose...
It's obviously a lie, but I'm guessing the MAGA cult will claim that "get transgender out of our schools" only means "transgenderism", which they love to remind us has absolutely nothing at all to do with transgender people.
We were called Pink Triangles back then for the mark they made us wear. They tested the death camp system on us and other political enemies of the party before widely rounding up the Jewish population.
Those prison camps they’re gonna build in Texas for the immigrants, aren’t just for immigrants.
Nope! The Jews were just the largest group they went after and often forgotten were the Black ppl, the disabled ppl, seniors, orphans, mentally ill, gay and trans that he murdered too...
Appreciate the information, thank you. So they took all of those folks early too hey? I knew they did just didn’t realize I had the order wrong. I’m disabled, mentally ill, and gay, besides being trans, so I guess anyway you slice it, I’m getting the gas.
I can't vouche that the order is correct. I just know that anyone who didn't fit into the Aryan mold, and/or wasn't productive (disabled or older for ex) that they were a drain on the system and had to go....
Yes because god forbid you find yourself attracted to a trans person and then you’re questioning your own sexuality and as good Christians we can’t have that
Guarantee that no one in that audience has ever been in the same room as a trans person ,yet Trump has made them enemy number one and made it seem like they are lurking in every corner of every room waiting to turn everyone into the opposite sex.
I guarantee they have. Out trans people are about 1.5% of the population. At a store, in an office, in a waiting room, at a restaurant, somewhere they've been in the same room as a trans person and may have not even realized. They always think they can tell, but they can't.
The absurdity of banning ANY human being from anything health related—accompanied by the absolute ignorance of what, why and who transpeople are—is sickening. Btw Trump, Mace, Musk, Vance, Johnson or any MAGA would not ever guess I am trans. Hence their stupidity.
Not one person in that audience has an actual problem with trans people they didn't just make up.
They're just fucking salivating to go after people for no other reason than they can. They want the power target whoever they want and they're too fucking stupid to understand they're not far behind.
Exactly, there’s some “sliver lining” though these people are going to be PISSED off when Trump doesn’t carry out his promises to do these horrific things. They’ll most likely first turn on him and his regime before taking it apon themselves.
That's the most fundamental part of radicalization. Just identify an out-group, that is easily recognizable for your team, to rally against. Then you can easily stir them to hateful behavior. Support them when they do, and encourage violence to those who try to protect the out-group.
There's a shortage of 41000 people in the US military. Trans people make up to about 15000. I wish this age late stage capitalist tantrums wouldn't be so damn dangerous for anyone that wasn't a white guy.
They just want trans people to be ostracized from society or for them for repress their identity despite the psychological damage that is proven to do. It's the beginning stages of genocide. Segregation and dehumanization.
As someone trying to move to a safe haven state to get back on T I’m genuinely wondering if this is now a pipe dream or if states will actually fight for me??
IIRC California, Washington, Minnesota, Michigan have in the wake of the election been enshrining reproductive care & trans healthcare/civil rights into state constitutions and explicitly vowed to protect trans folk
New York as well. State constitution was amended to protect both abortion rights and prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
How about with a stroke of his pen, the conman/rapist/convict gets rid of sexual assault, gun violence, hunger, global warming, etc? All of you people cheering and clapping when the conman says such bs, be ready. Did he end high grocery prices the day he was elected? The wars? He’s a LIAR. ALWAYS.
I can’t say I’m surprised, but none the less this is disgusting. On day one, he will take a small minority of people and disenfranchise them as if they are less than. Everyone needs to be ready to fight this and everything that comes after, including our politicians.
The thing is, most people who voted for him cited the economy as their main reason for doing so. Trans people weren't even registered as a concern. I'm sure a lot of them are transphobic and aren't losing sleep over this
But it shows that a lot of people are going to regret voting for him
their economic policies always hurt everyone but the wealthy. culture war things like this distract their base from that fact. fox news will talk a lot about how he's putting us filthy degenerates in our place instead of about how tariffs have made their viewers walmart trips more expensive.
After telling Time Magazine last week that "we're talking about a very small number of people, and we're talking about it, and it gets massive coverage, and it's not a lot of people" and that he would not “get into the bathroom issue,” that has “ripped apart our country.”
And they cheer that others will lose rights. But why? What part of that do they celebrate? Just seeing people treated poorly makes them celebrate? Genuinely confused. Is it based solely on their inability to care about others or is more hatred for everyone not exactly like them?
They have a vision of their head for an aesthetic (white, christian, straight, abled) and we ruin it, ergo we must be pruned out of their society so they can keep it neat and tidy.
They do not know empathy, so this solution to their racist, queerphobic, ableist objective seems so obvious to them.
He's a fucker. That's all I can say. He's just a fucker. He's not a lover, or a giver, or a supporter, just a fucker; and not even a good fucker if the reports from the professionals he hired are true.
Stuck in the dark ages. Fueled by fear. Driven to barbarism... Trump is the king of the American Taliban. A weapon of destruction who will usher his country off a cliff so deep that will take decades to climb out of.
"The political purpose of the
Two Minutes Hate
is to allow the citizens of Oceania
to vent their existential anguish
and personal hatred toward
politically expedient enemies"
i mean, he's worse for trans people, but as a trans woman can you explain to me why most democrats voted for the NDAA, a bill that will cut funding of veterans+children of servicemembers health insurance away from gender affirming care?
I look at trans issues like say gay marriage was a decade ago. I have hope that it will reach a saturation point with voters. The problem is not enough people are holding Democrats accountable. Trans people don't have a lot of allies. We aren't a big enough group to do it alone.
Because the donor class has told them not to defend us, that by cutting us out, they can win. It's a lie, but they don't want to hear the truth. Harris was right, when we fight we win, but that requires actually fighting, which is hard. They don't want to do hard. But we saw when you don't you lose.
Well yeah, the Green Party has just been a cult of personality for as long as I can remember. They just picked a new personality when the previous one wasn't serving them well anymore.
Listen to them cheer. Salivating at the thought of fucking with trans people. Absolute lunacy, literal nazis. These people would have had no problems with trans being replaced with jews.
Implying that we aren't next. You think a single Jew is going to be safe in America if he goes after trans Jews first? Nah they'll just have an excuse to look for the rest of the Jews who didn't swear fealty to him like his in laws and Zionist collaborators.
The apathetic didn't vote. Some of them were mad because they couldn't vote for anyone that wasn't going to "fix" their issue to their satisfaction.
So many thought all the stuff trump and his gang said they were going to do was not going to affect them.
The US education system working as planned.
Thank God Trump does not want to transition. He is not an attractive man, but my lord, can you imagine what he would look like as a woman? Just another A-Hole move, by VP elect trump.
It's wild that the greatest comfort you can get from this guy is knowing how lazy he is and how little follow-through he has. If he can't sign a single paper to get it done, boom. Won't bother again.
Disgusted by the cheers from these fascist zealots eating up every lie and bigoted promise.
This election has shown me how bigoted or unconcerned the American public is. Fuck this government. Fuck the right-wing. Fuck Trump and every one of his cronies.
I will stand in solidarity with all the allies that are affected by this, but I will openly mock every last "LGB drop the T" who gets screwed over by this.
Senator Duckworth also said Sarah McBride’s bathroom access wasn’t worth fighting for, and she voted yes in the first price of anti-LGBT legislation Congress passed since the early ‘60s. I wouldn’t count on her to help us now.
Please provide your sources because everything I found says the complete opposite, and the bill hasn't even made it out of the House for the Senate to vote on.
She gave an interview one way then voted another. I know she’s not GOP, I’m saying don’t depend on her when the chips are down. She’s already abandoned trans youth.
I see what you’re saying. Republicans insisted on striking trans care for minor service family members from the military bill. Terrible. Glad I know what happened. Many good Senators were sort of forced down this path. Trans rights are human rights.
I thought you meant the bathroom bill.
Are you in Illinois? If so, it would be worth contacting her office & asking why she voted for the Defense Bill with that awful anti-trans kids/anti-family/anti-military measure in it. If you're her constituent, she owes you an explanation.
Duckworth never said it wasn’t worth fighting for, she said the Mace’s position was disgusting and bigoted. When she said we have more important things to work on, she was criticizing Mace, not Mcbride
So she fought against the new congressional rule that requires McBride to use the men’s room?
Fun fact, she also voted for the new NDAA for fy 25 without challenging the provision that prevented medical coverage for trans dependent of service members.
“… first price [piece?] of anti-LGBT legislation Congress passed since the early ‘60s.” To which legislation do you refer? Just curious. What about DADT (1993) and DOMA (1996)?
Personally, I don't think Trump himself really cares that much about trans people either way. I think he just sees them as easy targets to be scapegoated for his own political gain.
People who readily buy in to conspiracies deny the very open conspiracy against trans people being waged by groups like the Heritage Foundation and laundered through publications like the New York Times and Atlantic.
I'm not denying that at all. I'm trying to give some perspective that those attacks are unjustified and that ostracizing people who are just trying to live their lives - that makes someone an unhealthy member of society.
Oh, for sure! just wanting to emphasize that the massive wave of transphobia is manufactured- when you accurately describe the state of affairs for trans people right now, it sounds like a paranoid conspiracy theory.
I’m a transgender educator. I assume it either means stripping me of my credentials for being trans, or preventing kids from identifying as their preferred name and gender at schools lest they be expelled.
Either way, attempts to remove us from public life.
I have a GFM to get me and my partner to another safe country and donations have stalled. It’s scary. Feels like we’re an acceptable casualty. A sacrifice to a dark god known as "The Economy."
"Both candidates are equally bad for trans people"
Much of the online left tried very hard to discourage left-leaning people from voting, because Biden (and then Harris) were not pure enough. Sadly, even many trans people.
I didn't see this. Not saying it didn't exist. But literally every leftist content creator I watched encouraged voting (while still fairly criticizing Kamala)
The vast majority of online leftists (even the ☭-emoji ones, and non-transitioning "wide transgender umbrella" ppl) don't have much to materially lose from a Trump presidency
Transsexual people on HRT (or desiring HRT), massively. Sadly many still do purity testing for likes&shares from the former.
Tbf , the dems are selling us under the bus now so like. Would they have sold us while holding power? I voted Harris but the way democrats are saying we cost them the election it's. Ughhhh
I think if they won, they would continue to ignore the subject. Which is not exactly good, since it lets GOP states continue to trample on every right, but is still not active hate across the country.
The fact they still funded 45s wall and such and refused to codify roe, idk I think they'd give Republicans more anti trans things to "reach across the aisle " then wonder why more and more trans people have them lol
There's still difference between "moderate centrist that doesn't feel strongly one way or the other (or claims so, thinking it will help their campaign)" and "committed trans eliminationist candidate, from the Trans-Eliminationist Party"
I respect that. Just kinda snubbed now that dems are becoming the trans extermination party too cause "we can't be the party of freaks and can't pander to the far left" as dems are now supporting horrid anti lgbt ahit.
It's all talk - many who pinned this on us are the ones responsible for the failures of the DNC. Those same people are now hoping to play ball with the most anti-trans administration in history.
Obama wouldn't support gay marriage in 2008. But only the Dems will vote for our rights.
any state that wanted to do what trump was doing now, could have done so with impunity. harris said as much. biden has done nothing about texas or florida's draconian laws and he watched them build them for the last four years
the online left had no impact on this election, because we have no impact period, there aren't that many of us, and only we care about what we have to say, and we spent all our time arguing with each other.
girl, no. the democrats ran on more cops, more genocide, more deportation and at best ignoring trans people. that's why they lost. it has literally nothing to do with the online left.
I mean I wish we could claim the credit for her losing, because then the democrats would actually have to take us seriously, but everyone excluding a certain kind of very online person knows that's not the case.
firebombing walmart is only something I have heard from libs to attack leftists for doing actual organizing instead of just acting as mindless democratic party drones. Never heard a republican bring that up. They don't know that the left exists, they think we're liberals.
Democrats will really be like "you believe in progressive policy? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, winning elections" and then not win elections
They lost cause they openly let Trump run a field day on blaming Kamala for groceries and gas and inflation and shoved one thumb up their ass with the other in their mouths while Trump told people he'd fix it.
Like that was what cost them the election, they didn't even TRY to fight Trump on that.
Seriously that really pissed me off am at the point where I'm just going to let people have whatever consequences they get for not voting or discouraging people from voting. I'm tired of trying to educate
Much of that was an active disinformation campaign waged by right-wing paid trolls pretending to be LGBTQ or progressives for purposes of voter suppression. And it worked.
I tried convincing MANY to vote dem..prob? dems pandered to RW..did ZERO to offset anti-trans lies/push to stop offensive arms to Israel etc. now dems HELP RW pass anti-trans law? many often reliable LW base voters feel abandoned and wont come back til dems FIGHT for said base VS say liz cheney fans
The problem with politics is that pragmatism is really the only way to go. Did I expect Harris to be perfect? Of course not. But I did think she could possibly be swayed over four years to be better on trans rights and Gaza. Instead, we now have this shit head openly espousing hatred.
We need to Drop the Purity Test
We don’t need to be all in on all issues
Get our heads out of our ass or we will continue to lose elections we should be winning
Honestly, I think Kamala would have been better for trans rights than she let on. The various elements of the right are able to back Trump even when he's not AS racist as they would like, cause they have faith that he'll still enact their racist fantasies anyway. The left can't seem to do that.
It's mostly because the broader left is far more fragmented and prone to infighting a lot. The broader right, on the other hand, is united in their hatred against everyone else who isn't like them. Of course, without a target to direct their ire on, they'll inevitable turn on each other.
indifference is not preferable republicans will get to the death camps sooner or later anyways because dems won't do anything to oppose those
unless your definition of preferable is "well trans people 10 years from now will suffer even as everyone sees the looming specter of fascism arriving"
I've had this argument too many times to take this conversation much further, but yes, I do think there's value in trying to stave off what feels inevitable as long as you can
Then buy time now and try to replace institutional dems with more progressive ones down the road. At the very least it would've given us more time to prepare
Not equally bad.
but "this person will definitely take away your rights" versus "this person will not act to take away your rights, probably, but would sign legislation that does if Rs stuck it in an omnibus bill and Ds didn't fight against it (and they won't)" is not very reassuring.
also, because people outside the political class assume the politicians are fighting for us when Democrats have power, the give us less material support
for a lot of trans people, when we advocate for an understanding that things keep getting worse for us no matter which of those two political parties is in power, it’s to push back against the libs with resources no longer giving a shit about us when they assume a Kamala or Joe is taking care of it
I dont think the answer to this is "it's the trans peoples fault for their own oppression" but that the dems did not run a good enough campaign to win.
You're assuming he actually cares/has principles. From where I stand, he's riding on a rising tide of hatred deliberately spurred on by other bad faith actors all of whom only care about their own power, damn the consequences
Executive orders only direct what the executive branch does. He cannot unilaterally ban any sort of healthcare, and he cannot just make up a rule that directs schools what to do. As the "commander of cheese", he can direct the military what to do. Thanks to kellyanne Conway for that naming.
Yeah. It’s like this exact shit was happening 30 years ago to a different group of people. Homoflexuals? Jays? The name escapes me, because I’m American.
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Fuck the patriarchy
I absolutely HATE my country right now. Fuck EVERY Trump supporter!
But if we do it right, it’ll be glorious. So fight strong, many people now know the feeling of having hormones, of having a sense of freedom of expression. They’re not giving it up.
Let’s fuck shit up, yeah? :)
Consultation is just one step. Take that step soon and then watch closely for what happens next.
There are a lot more people talking about this than you know!
Sending you love and hope
PLEASE go back to therapy
Not for this BS
But because you will need a place to be authentic in the days to come
I am sending you hope even though I know - having Hope blows sometimes
Sending you Hope to fan the flames of the fight within you for when you are tired
💜🔥🥊
The fact that its a small community means that they need allies and outspoken friends to advocate for them.
Not one has ever hurt me. Most are great at lifting up others.
My trans neighbor takes care of my dog when I am gone. He loves her like she is his second human.
it's not just done to females
However, there is no medical benefit to removing a clitoris in order to keep a woman from having orgasms.
I think that only adults should get a consensual circumcision. Infants can't consent. Unless the foreskin is too tight or won't open, the procedure is unnecessary.
does that mean I should make it a law that everyone has to be circumsized?
probably not, seems a little self-serving while ignoring the evidence of health.
I wonder, is Matt Gaetz still on the speakers list?
Why yes. Yes he is.
Ah. 🤨
But will they let him speak?
I'll never go back to that small dark place. They'll have to kill me.
I'm trapped in a red state with my partner... I was supposed to get an appointment at PP for hrt in January... I hate it here so much.
This country is a shithole. I'm so fucking done...
But we should fear trans or gays! Lordy!
*- this law applies to trans uses only.
😢 😡
Who the "other" is is largely irrelevant to the fascists.
They can start taking out the T from the LGBT first, before they go after the rest of the letters.
Other than that, I cannot imagine what they’re so bothered by. In all of my years, I’ve only met a few trans people, and they have all been wonderful people.
Many of his “future cabinet” are sexual deviants
Create an "other" group to incite fear within your base, focusing their attention on a group that can't defend themselves so that you can get away with whatever you want while the populace is distracted.
3 Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists…
Jews where just convenient at the time. It can be any group the fascist leader chooses.
Anyone who isn’t part of the in-group is at risk.
https://youtu.be/qCQhBYEMRQI?si=c_R88VCDT1Xdc4mL
Hitler believed in the Eugenics movement and Elders of Zion.
Trans people are first line in Neimoller's poem, as it were.
-Niemöller
https://martin-niemoeller-stiftung.de/martin-niemoeller/was-sagte-niemoeller-wirklich
It's a challenging art/artist scenario, but it's such a powerful work with an important message; it's hard to not refer to it
You're right about the the former: they're hung up on trans people existing because they've been sold a line
The latter are worse: sacrificing trans folks not because they care, but because it gets votes
Unfortunately, this was probably a place where conservative Muslims and conservative Christians were able to find common ground.
I'm Canadian and watched that exact alignment happen in Toronto's suburbs, where conservatives of multiple faiths made common cause over sex education and LGBTQ+ rights.
It's an uneasy coalition, though, and it's falling apart over Palestine.
...because as soon as the base realizes the rich are robbing them blind, it's Luigi time.
It'll be trans people, then immigrants, then gays, then blacks, then leftists. Eventually it'll be each other, which is where Russia is at, with oligarchs knifing each other
Performative cruelty is a great red herring, if you're a political sociopath
That and they can’t govern and don’t understand how anything works so they want to murder people as a gimmick.
Why? They're miserable, small people
That and "The Devoted Friend" by Oscar Wilde
This century it's immigrants and trans people
hitler's speeches usually focused on Roma and Jews tho
there were the people he was publically killing, and those he was privately killing
- Some "men" want to & can be women and "step down" from their privilege
- And some "women" want to & can be men and "step up" to the privilege they are barred from
- And some people desire to be neither
...Then what *actually* makes manhood superior?
The most subversive critique of all is simply existing as what they oppose
Trans & NB people, who simply want to live our lives peacefully, are treated as if allowing this one simple request would annihilate the planet & society faster than any nuclear bomb
You combine this with the tentacles that Christofacists have woven into our government 1/?
Second…Cruelty Is The Point.
Gives the intolerant someone to hate to distract from the upcoming pillaging of the middle and lower economic classes.
Of course he'll do it he doesn't give a shit about anyone other than himself.
They are embarrassed & tired of being "fooled" by beautiful transgender people.
Having scapegoat wins them power.
Once he learned he could /cont
be Republican and be accepted as one without being overtly religious, the mask was off.
He's always been politically conservative, and his only socially liberal beliefs were that he wants to be able to do drugs. Like most American Libertarians, basically.
And yes, many liberals and some leftists (they aren't the same) did fall for the mask. Many leftists didn't because they tend to be anti-capitalist and even at his most liberal-posing Musk was always very capitalist.
he was only doing that for Grimes
the divorce took the mask off
Republicans are fine so long as they feel superior to someone. They can only punch down.
I hope Trump’s dick rots off just like Weinsteins. President rotten dick.
But it IS about trans ppl in that they genuinely think we are a threat to social order and civilization, an afront to god
Time for Trump to finish his transformation from a piece of shit to a complete pile of 🍊💩
Seriously, take a cactus and just repeatedly fuck yourself with it.
Sorry you were offended by my attempted slam of Trump
But I see, he’s really a woman, how awful—transphobia and misogyny are so funny 🙄
If you read project 2025, it will be far more and far worse than even this.
How in the hell do we fight somebody who controls every branch of government, and evidently most of the press too?
and never, ever just give up and obey in advance
Or our official IDs gender reverted and completely invalidated?
I can't think of any action a small group like ours could take that they would pay any attention to that wouldn't end us quicker.
If it's testosterone E29.1
I'm really at a loss as to what to do, other than to implore leaders of other governments to add protections to US trans people and women into trade agreements or something...
But why?
Lots of people are gonna get pissed and these people are gonna direct their anger on HIM first,
Republicants
will never change☠️
Say, how's that "wall" doing on our southern border? 🙄
Expect book burnings. Brown ppl dragged off in vans rigged into gas chambers. Lunchings etc
🤦🏻♀️
Enough. teachers have the power and should go on strike on Jan20th. It will crush his economy as people won't be able to go to work cuz they have to watch the kids.
Fuck Trump and everyone of his supporters.
Unfortunately, a lot of the people who will be impacted by this chose to stay home on that day/have friends who chose to stay home on that day.
It was God awful!
If they don't want her, I guess she's shit out of luck. Go back to her horrible family, I suppose...
They're the enemy, so I must destroy them.
Transgender people scare me, so I will eliminate them.
No capacity for care, awareness, or empathy for human beings.
#transrightsarehumanrights
WTF USA???????
They sure as hell never mentioned it when I was growing up, even though we spent a ridiculously long time in history talking about WW2.
HAHAHAH no we skipped straight to Pearl Harbor.
Those prison camps they’re gonna build in Texas for the immigrants, aren’t just for immigrants.
They're just fucking salivating to go after people for no other reason than they can. They want the power target whoever they want and they're too fucking stupid to understand they're not far behind.
While the transphobia is fucked, there is absolutely not a shortage of people in the military.
We are not at war and we're absolutely not going to be invaded. We could cut out 99% of people from the military and be just fine.
We spend obscene amounts of money on the military already, we absolutely don't need to hire more.
Why can't these people just let us be happy. The biggest thing my parents noticed when I came out is that I just was happier.
But it shows that a lot of people are going to regret voting for him
Don't you EVER fucking dare tell me that I'm being "too political".
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3ldw2bopylc2c
They do not know empathy, so this solution to their racist, queerphobic, ableist objective seems so obvious to them.
Two Minutes Hate
is to allow the citizens of Oceania
to vent their existential anguish
and personal hatred toward
politically expedient enemies"
Two Minutes Hate
GEORGE ORWELL (1984)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate
(For legal reasons I’m lying)
I hope you’re still happy when it begins to affect you, because it will.
…and NOT in a good way.
So many thought all the stuff trump and his gang said they were going to do was not going to affect them.
The US education system working as planned.
This election has shown me how bigoted or unconcerned the American public is. Fuck this government. Fuck the right-wing. Fuck Trump and every one of his cronies.
(I don't mean schools, which are already fucked. I mean like, separate drinking fountains for MAGAts and everyone else)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/24/politics/video/sotu-duckworth-on-capitol-transgender-bathroom-rule
https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3ldo743r6ls2e
Are you in Illinois? If so, it would be worth contacting her office & asking why she voted for the Defense Bill with that awful anti-trans kids/anti-family/anti-military measure in it. If you're her constituent, she owes you an explanation.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/11/24/tammy-duckworth-congress-focus-other-issues-trans-bathroom-cnn/
Fun fact, she also voted for the new NDAA for fy 25 without challenging the provision that prevented medical coverage for trans dependent of service members.
His handlers do, though, and he cares what they think, so he does what they ask.
My heart breaks for all trans people who will suffer even more discrimination.
Freedom for all!
Either way, attempts to remove us from public life.
Much of the online left tried very hard to discourage left-leaning people from voting, because Biden (and then Harris) were not pure enough. Sadly, even many trans people.
Try harder.
"Oh how bad could it possibly get?!"
Even had one say they wanted Dems to lose so they would at least PRETEND to care about trans people.
Yeah, wonder how that's going. 🙄
Transsexual people on HRT (or desiring HRT), massively. Sadly many still do purity testing for likes&shares from the former.
Ugh.
Both about "what is transness" (a feeling deep inside, no transition required), and about youth transition
I get it i really do. Dems need to better.
i'm a single issue voter about trans healthcare.
Pick the train that gets you closer to your destination.
Then catch the next one
The train may not get you all the way but it will get you closer to your destination
Obama wouldn't support gay marriage in 2008. But only the Dems will vote for our rights.
👉A spineless Democratic party that was unable to galvanize the average normie (nor the online hyperleft ofc)
👉Horribly ineffective messaging from the online left, that always tries to maximize likes&shares with out of touch takes, not changing opinions
Which in their view is not about affordable healthcare, gay rights, or even trans healthcare.
It's about firebombing walmarts, calling everything racist, saying a bearded man is literally a woman if he honestly says so.
Like that was what cost them the election, they didn't even TRY to fight Trump on that.
😒
I still received "the dems are just as bad"
State controlled by republicans: goes so far as to ban education about trans people, criminalizes the behavior of trans people.
You are insane if you think these are the same.
Best thing I ever did was get politically active in my community.
The BS from idealists is a lot easier to ignore when you show up for your beliefs. They won't show up for theirs.
We don’t need to be all in on all issues
Get our heads out of our ass or we will continue to lose elections we should be winning
Focus
unless your definition of preferable is "well trans people 10 years from now will suffer even as everyone sees the looming specter of fascism arriving"
but "this person will definitely take away your rights" versus "this person will not act to take away your rights, probably, but would sign legislation that does if Rs stuck it in an omnibus bill and Ds didn't fight against it (and they won't)" is not very reassuring.
Was she objectively then thousand times better than Trump, though?
Oh Hell,
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
However, I fear it will be much, much worse.
I find it weird that people talk like they do
also, because people outside the political class assume the politicians are fighting for us when Democrats have power, the give us less material support
so things end up worse for us either way
Malice is less cruel than apathy.