trans people cannot compromise on trans kids ever. we will never give up trying to help them. you will never convince me that 1 cis child is worth 99 trans kids.
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As a parent, I'm doing everything I can to help my child. It's breaking my heart, but, I'm putting on my brave face and continuing on. I want to see them grow up and be happy.
as a masc sapphic transfem with one o' them spicy brains, i was never able to see myself anywhere. it is so fucking important to provide good examples and meaningful help to queer kids, i won't be affiliated with anyone who thinks shoving kids back in the closet is anything but monstrous
I mentor LGBTQ teens at a local queer community centre and they may not be related to me, but ISTG that they make me rich in all the ways that really, really count and I would straight up take a bullet for any of them.
It's so deeply painful that LGBTQ people looking out for queer kids get framed as malicious when what we're trying to do is make sure they get to grow up less isolated and afraid than we were.
That's due to "it's a fetish" framing, it has multiple uses to transphobes (whether they truly believe it's the case or not). First off, it's easy demonization, also makes pushing back against anything that helps trans adults as well when it's just a choice instead of a necessity.
In these times I think it's one pf our biggest jobs to help trans kids and baby trans people who just start to figure themselves out. I'm doing okay, I know for a fact they don't
Agreed. We need to be the support & kindness they need in this scary time. A lot of us know what it's like to go through figuring out their trans solo in a world that hates & ridicules you, so it's imperative we help these kids know they're not alone & that someone's fighting for them.
its not even a calculation of comparative worth! the pushback happening is hollow with a thin shell of bigotry because they lost their last scapegoat in sexual identity, though now some of them see both as potential targets with this incoming admin
Correct. All THE PEOPLE have Equal Civil Rights. We need a new wave of populism with an agenda for THE PEOPLE. All of us were created equal, and we deserve the same rights and opportunities. That's it. How have we strayed so far from our Egalitarian founders? It is UNAMERICAN to divide THE PEOPLE.
Irrelevant to this discussion and a non sequitur. I am undeterred.
The American Revolution was was a very Egalitarian movement for the time and we need a new one now. Yes, they were flawed. This is obvious. Thus the need for a new movement truly focused on THE PEOPLE.
They tried to establish something new for who they considered the people (white land-owning men). When we know better we do better. THE PEOPLE is ALL Americans, and THE PEOPLE deserve the same civil rights. Only true division is between obscenely wealthy American Oligarchs and the rest of us.
What I’m trying to tell you is that the people in charge NOW are the same people who the constitution was originally written for. We’re still having debates over who is considered a human being because america is built on exclusion and hatred.
Right! Correct! Total agreement. Thus the need for something brand new. I have some ideas, and yes we can acknowledge the past while also taking back things like PATRIOTISM AND LIBERTY. Those terms have been stolen from THE PEOPLE. These things do not belong to one party or another.
Aside from being morally shit, in what world do you see the fash stopping at trans kids? It's no better tactically than cis gays thinking if they throw trans rights under the bus, then surely their marriages will be safe.
Like, the morality of it should be good enough reason to stand in solidarity with trans kids, but also fucking *think.* In what world does appeasement work??
My eight-year-old nephew's friend across the street came out as trans a few months back so it's kind of falling to me to make sure she gets T blockers in a couple years
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Trans kids exist whether or not they believe they don't.
Affirming means letting them be what they want. Not meds, surgery, or whatever conspiracy bigots believe!
The American Revolution was was a very Egalitarian movement for the time and we need a new one now. Yes, they were flawed. This is obvious. Thus the need for a new movement truly focused on THE PEOPLE.